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chimera: References & Edit History

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Kara Rogers
Kara Rogers is the senior editor of biomedical sciences at Encyclopædia Britannica, where she oversees a range of content from medicine and genetics to microorganisms. She joined Britannica in 2006 and has been a member of the National Association of Science Writers since 2009.

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified age appropriateness: Biomed Central - Stem Cell Research and Therapy - Humananimal chimeras: ethical issues about farming chimeric animals bearing human organs.	Yamini Chauhan	Jan 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: Biomed Central - Stem Cell Research and Therapy - Humananimal chimeras: ethical issues about farming chimeric animals bearing human organs.	Yamini Chauhan	Jan 06, 2025
	Add new Web site: CORE - Functional and Structural Characterization of Chimeras of a Bacterial Genotoxin and Human Type I DNAseBacterial Genotoxin and Human Type I DNAse.	Grace Young	Aug 24, 2024
	Add new Web site: Nature - A theological argument for chimeras.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jun 01, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Chimeric Genes in Deletions and Duplications Associated with Intellectual Disability.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Nature - A theological argument for chimeras.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 12, 2023
	Add new Web site: WebMD - What is Chimerism?	Gloria Lotha	Sep 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Live Science - Human-Animal Chimeras: Biological Research & Ethical Issues.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 23, 2022
	Cross-references added.	Kara Rogers	Sep 11, 2018
	Add new Web site: University of Minnesota - Health Sciences - Chimeras.	Emily Rodriguez	May 27, 2016
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed - Chimerism and Tetragametic Chimerism in Humans: Implications in Autoimmunity, Allorecognition and Tolerance.	Emily Rodriguez	May 27, 2016
	Add new Web site: MedicineNet.com - Definition of Chimera.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Dec 06, 2015
	Added a photo of a chimeric mouse.	Kara Rogers	Jul 13, 2015
	New article added.	Kara Rogers	Feb 09, 2012