Recent studies have highlighted the need for clearer ethical guidelines and oversight in chimera research. One article emphasizes the importance of addressing both human and nonhuman animal ...

Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals ... when considering an ethical issue.

One potentially appealing experimental strategy is to investigate the functional effects of human-lineage specific (HLS) sequences in transgenic non-human primates (NHPs). Ideally, the species ...

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 ...

The article below only deals with the ethical issues of this ... to actually create living animal-human hybrids. [Such beings are often referred to as chimeras after a creature in Greek mythology ...

The Trump administration urged U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid around the world in line with Trump’s ...

An ethical debate has been sparked after the announcement that a Spanish and US research team has created the first human–monkey chimera, in a lab in China. But could this novel approach change the ...

which would have banned U.S. taxpayer funding of human chimera experiments—the creation of organisms with both human and non-human animal cells—anywhere in the world. Of the Senate’s 50 ...

For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of humanimal known as a human-animal chimera.