Ancient Greek mythology includes stories of a fire-breathing creature called a chimera. This fearsome beast was a mix between a lion, goat, and serpent. But chimeras are not just a part of mythology.

Stem cell transplants that follow both myeloablative and non-myeloablative conditioning regimens can result in states of mixed chimerism, which can be stable over time. With widespread availability of ...

Cases in which a male patient receives a heart from a female donor provide an unusual opportunity to test whether primitive cells translocate from the recipient to the graft and whether cells with the ...

Chimerism analysis has become an important tool for the peri-transplant surveillance of engraftment. It offers the possibility to realize impending graft rejection and can serve as an indicator for ...

Plenty of things can go wrong in DNA testing in a run-of-the-mill case. Problems with interpreting the sample, determining the right match probabilities, and ensuring the integrity of the sample and ...

Taylor Muhl was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called Chimerism — a state in which an individual has two different DNAs, immune systems, and even different bloodstreams. Facebook/ Taylor Muhl ...

I've long been a big fan of Greek mythology and all the wondrous beasts that tested, and sometimes bested, mythical heroes. One such creature was the chimera, a grotesque hybrid of a lion, goat, and ...

There’s a glut of awesome science coming out towards the end of this week and not much at the start, so I’m sticking the Revisited post up early (it’s usually on a Saturday) to clear the schedule ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Given that The CW’s Riverdale regularly plays fast and loose with reality, it would be fair to view any so-called science thrown into an episode of the show with a ...

Spoilers ahead for Riverdale Season 4, Episode 8. Since the Halloween episode of Riverdale Season 4, Cheryl has been led to believe that she absorbed her triplet Julian in the womb. Her mother, ...

People that have two different sets of DNA are called human chimeras. It can happen when a woman is pregnant with fraternal twins and one embryo dies very early on. The other embryo can "absorb" its ...