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- What is a chimera? - New Scientist
A chimera is an individual whose body is composed of cells that are genetically distinct, as if they are from different individuals – and sometimes they really are from different individuals
- The boy whose blood has no father - New Scientist
IN THE closest thing to a human virgin birth that modern science has ever recorded, British geneticists last week described the remarkable case of a young boy whose body is derived in part from an
- Motor made from bacteria parts is one of the smallest ever built
A living motor made by combining different parts from bacteria is one of the smallest ever built, and could one day power tiny robots Many types of bacteria are propelled by natural motors that
- Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
In the chimeric piglets, multiple tissues – including in the heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin – partly consisted of monkey cells, but the proportion was low: between one in 1000 and one in
- Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes
How did you get to be so big? Mysterious microbes that some consider a whole new domain of life might in fact be just normal viruses that pilfer genes from their host organisms Unlike normal
- Seven unsolved medical mysteries - New Scientist
Chimeric people Imagine going for genetic tests along with your children, only to find that you can’t possibly be their biological mother – despite the fact that you gave birth to them
- Can genetically engineered woolly mice help bring back the mammoth?
The team then sequenced the cells to identify ones with the desired changes and injected them into mice embryos to create chimeric mice
- Highs and lows from 50 years of human-powered flight
In 1959, industrialist Henry Kremer stirred up interest in human-powered aircraft when he established a prize for the first craft to cover a course of 1 mile (1 6 kilometres) Enthusiasts around
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