In the past chimeras, an unnatural amalgamation of two different species was the stuff of futuristic sci-fiction comics, today this promising genetic engineering technique is less scary as it becomes reality to offer solutions in a life-threatening worldwide donor organ shortage. Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of living cells, tissues, or organs between different species, as opposed to allotransplantation between different individuals from the same species. … Continue reading First pig-monkey chimera engineered and born.