Ancient Greek mythology includes stories of a fire-breathing creature called a chimera. This fearsome beast was a mix between a lion, goat, and serpent. But chimeras are not just a part of mythology.

Stem cell transplants that follow both myeloablative and non-myeloablative conditioning regimens can result in states of mixed chimerism, which can be stable over time. With widespread availability of ...

Timely diagnosis of impending graft rejection is crucial for effective therapeutic intervention after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). We have investigated the predictive ...

Plenty of things can go wrong in DNA testing in a run-of-the-mill case. Problems with interpreting the sample, determining the right match probabilities, and ensuring the integrity of the sample and ...

Imagine being your own twin. One woman knows exactly what that feels like—she has chimerism, a rare genetic disorder in which someone has two sets of DNA. Singer and model Taylor Muhl first opened up ...

Taylor Muhl first noticed she was different as a little girl in dance class. She discovered that she was the only one in her class who had a straight line running down the center of her torso, halving ...

Taylor Muhl was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called Chimerism — a state in which an individual has two different DNAs, immune systems, and even different bloodstreams. Facebook/ Taylor Muhl ...

Here, we summarize the clinical course of a 23-year-old man who had received a diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis at 14 years of age. Various immunosuppressive regimens, including high-dose ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Given that The CW’s Riverdale regularly plays fast and loose with reality, it would be fair to view any so-called science thrown into an episode of the show with a ...

Spoilers ahead for Riverdale Season 4, Episode 8. Since the Halloween episode of Riverdale Season 4, Cheryl has been led to believe that she absorbed her triplet Julian in the womb. Her mother, ...

A video of an oddly colored cat is causing a stir online as people debate whether its strange, patchwork coloration is just another type of calico cat or whether it is indicative of an even more rare ...

There’s a glut of awesome science coming out towards the end of this week and not much at the start, so I’m sticking the Revisited post up early (it’s usually on a Saturday) to clear the schedule ...