3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist - Scientific American - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 30 Dec 16The news that researchers want to create human-animal chimeras has generated controversy recently, and may conjure up ideas about Frankenstein-ish experiments. But chimeras aren't always man-made-and there are a number of examples of human chimeras that already exist. A chimera is essentially a single organism that's made up of cells from two or more "individuals"-that is, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms.