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In ancient Greece, chimeras were mythical monsters — part lion, part goat, and part snake. In addition to these interspecies animal chimeras, human–animal hybrids were common in Greek mythology; the centaurs, the sirens, and the Minotaur are famous examples. It is from this fascinating and mysterious mixture of animal and human that the scientific term originated. In biology, a chimera is an organism formed from aggregates of genetically different groups of cells derived from the same or different species. Only a few decades ago, we would have thought of these creatures exclusively as figments of our imagination. As is often . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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