0 in Greek mythology (= ancient stories), a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail: --
1 a hope or dream that is very unlikely ever to come true: --
Certainly a mechanism for regulating fetal size must exist because aggregation chimeras are not abnormally large at birth despite their origin from several complete preimplantation conceptuses.
Production of sheep-goat chimeras by inner cell mass transplantation.
The chimeras were arranged so that the queried trait was on the top for half of the trials and on the bottom for half of the trials.
The primary aim of the current study was to examine whether schizophrenia patients' response to emotion chimeras is affected by the valence of the emotion presented.
Production of somatic and germline chimeras in the chicken by transfer of early blastodermal cells.
Insights into development and genetics from mouse chimeras.
They want ownership of the patent so that they can stop anyone else from making chimeras, even ones useful to research, because they consider such organisms to be unnatural abominations.
In order to evaluate the effect of the affective valence presented in the chimeric stimuli, we added a set of chimeras which presented a negative emotion, namely, anger.