If one were to take two different zygotes from animals, one can combine animals to make a hybrid, a new animal ultimately. Chimeras are a combination of two or more animals that are made into one. Just like in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a gothic novel, the creature was made out of multiple people. There are different types of chimeras and they do not need to be animals, people, usually twins, are chimeras. Chimeras can be used for medical treatment via transplants. Imagine having a pig organ being transplanted into a human body? A chimera of a pig with human cells to grow a human organ in the pig would help solve the problem of people waiting for transplants for an extensive amount of time. Chimeras must stay a part of science due
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There are two different ways to make a chimera: introducing organs from one species to another, or “introduce the organs from one animal to another,” (Blakemore). Putting an organ from one animal to another is risky, because there is a chance that the organ will reject. It has been done with mice and rats before. Scientists once introduced rat stem cells to mice by giving a mouse a pancreas transplant from a rat that had mouse DNA in it. That team had announced that after the transplant, it had cured diabetes in the mouse (Blakemore). Chimeras are also produced at the embryonic level. People would take a zygote from one animal and inject it with cells from another animal then let them grow into a hybrid …show more content…
The transplants from the pigs to the humans could not happen yet due to the organs having less human cells in the organ needed for it to be a successful transplant. People think that if the organs won’t work now, they will not work later, but those people are wrong. They are wrong because this is an amazing medical advancement that could help people across the globe, but they are close minded toward chimeras because the organs that they want to put inside of humans were grown inside of a pig. They need to know that it takes trial and error to get the right result. Everything takes a little amount of time sometimes just to be perfect, but it can take longer than most would like. Chimeras would be put to good medical use in the future once they are made correctly. Chimeras would eliminate overdue organ transplants needed to treat
There are two different ways to make a chimera: introducing organs from one species to another, or “introduce the organs from one animal to another,” (Blakemore). Putting an organ from one animal to another is risky, because there is a chance that the organ will reject. It has been done with mice and rats before. Scientists once introduced rat stem cells to mice by giving a mouse a pancreas transplant from a rat that had mouse DNA in it. That team had announced that after the transplant, it had cured diabetes in the mouse (Blakemore). Chimeras are also produced at the embryonic level. People would take a zygote from one animal and inject it with cells from another animal then let them grow into a hybrid …show more content…
The transplants from the pigs to the humans could not happen yet due to the organs having less human cells in the organ needed for it to be a successful transplant. People think that if the organs won’t work now, they will not work later, but those people are wrong. They are wrong because this is an amazing medical advancement that could help people across the globe, but they are close minded toward chimeras because the organs that they want to put inside of humans were grown inside of a pig. They need to know that it takes trial and error to get the right result. Everything takes a little amount of time sometimes just to be perfect, but it can take longer than most would like. Chimeras would be put to good medical use in the future once they are made correctly. Chimeras would eliminate overdue organ transplants needed to treat