RT Article
T1 Composite Animals: Then and Now
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 52
A1 Hinterberger, Amy
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1829460404
AB Since the early twentieth century, the term "chimera" has been used to describe many experimental composite plants and animals. Composite animals and embryos, involving the transfer of cells from different species to make chimeras, continue to be a fundamental cornerstone of biomedical research. However, the twenty-first century appears to be offering a new role for composite animals. Over the last fifteen to twenty years, composite animals and embryos have taken on a different form of life—an institutional life. With this institutional life, I argue, comes an opportunity to recast differences between humans and other animals and to reconsider how research on human health is governed.
K1 Bioethics
K1 Biomedicine
K1 chimeras
K1 composite life
K1 history of biology
K1 Regulation
DO 10.1002/hast.1428