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MAN/ANIMAL CHIMERA [1 record]

Record 1 2008-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

Legal systems cannot refrain from working out some governing principles when the specter of a man-animal chimera slowly begins to rise to view on the distant horizon.

Key term(s)
  • man/animal chimera
  • man/animal chimaera

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
CONT

[...] l'office américain des brevets a estimé que les techniques permettant de créer des embryons chimères homme-animal n'étaient pas brevetables.

Key term(s)
  • chimère homme/animal

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
DEF

Organismo vivo que resulta de la mezcla genética de un hombre con la mezcla genética de un animal.

CONT

Consideración aparte merece la hipótesis de híbridos hombre-animal. Desde hace años ya se están produciendo cerdos y ratones con genes humanos por motivos de investigación, pero también para una eventual producción en serie, mediante clonación, para obtener órganos de recambio para trasplantar.

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