Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

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Scientists say they are closer to understanding the best way to make the human body receptive to an organ donation from another species, an effort that could help solve an ongoing shortage of organs.

Human gametes develop within the body of the resultant organism; It contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues; or It exhibits human facial features or ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...