Scientists creating 'chimeras' to study diseases - Embryos with human and animal genetics

05/19/2016 - 22:00

Rob Stein


A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.

The researchers hope these embryos, known as chimeras, could eventually help save the lives of people with a wide range of diseases.

One way would be to use chimera embryos to create better animal models to study how human diseases happen and how they progress.

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