chimeric
Adjective
Meaning
Chimerical.
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his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
Administering a promising chimeric antibody to mice before infection prevented lethal disease in 80% of the animals, and treating them with the antibody after infection prevented mortality in 60%.
“Each week somebody presents a paper that talks about the things we’ve been studying,” Brynn Assignon ’20, a student in Associate Chemistry Professor Erika Taylor’s lab studying chimeric or fusion proteins, explained.
In mice whose brainstems were implanted with human DIPG, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen receptor T cells -- or CAR-T cells -- were able to eliminate tumors, leaving very few residual cancer cells.
Some bioethicists are concerned about human stem cells ending up in a pig's brain or sperm or eggs, which theoretically could mean a pig with a human consciousness or a human fetus developing inside a chimeric pig.
The GloFish is a patented Published PCT Application WO2000049150 "Chimeric Gene Constructs for Generation of Fluorescent Transgenic Ornamental Fish".