At Warwick we have worked extensively on plant virus chimeras as potential vaccines, largely for the production of antibodies. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
But in all seriousness, a chimera is a much better fit. From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Blogs] Reference
But this hybrid, known as a chimera, has sparked serious ethical debate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2007] Reference
Blastocysts often combine to form one human called a chimera, or split into two or three different babies. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
The term chimera comes from Greek mythology, and refers to a creature made of the parts of different animals. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Potter: 'Designer Genes': Stem Cells Used to Make Replacement Organs] Reference
A human chimera occurs when one fetus essentially absorbs another, resulting in one body with two genetic codes. From Wordnik.com. [dangerous idea] Reference
In the new study, scientists created a new mouse "chimera" with the human variant of the FOXP2 gene. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
I've always thought in-house blogs were a kind of chimera, precisely for the reason that this exemplifies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Presumably he doesnt think anti-semitism is a "chimera". From Wordnik.com. [Pickled Politics] Reference
Actually, BOTH components of the "chimera" are VERY OLD technologies. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
ELECTRIC / I.C.E. "chimera" automotive architectural concept --- exemplified by the. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Now note that there really is NO (!) "new, exotic" technology involved --- BOTH components of the "chimera" are VERY OLD technologies!. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Actually, even disarmament is to some extent a chimera. From Wordnik.com. [All Sound, No Fury] Reference
Money will be but a mere chimera, it would be love's labor lost!. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
But that, not the chimera of cybergold, is the real bottom line. From Wordnik.com. [Rolling The Dice With A Click Of The Mouse] Reference
To control a Parisian populace has hitherto been deemed a chimera. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Another possibility is that the original Lamb Walnut was a chimera. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
The chimera and other animal monsters occur only as figments of the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Classification of Patents] Reference
To reach his tree and its dubious safety he had to wind past that chimera. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
He can not easily believe it to be simply a chimera of an overwrought brain. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
As the name implied, such an unbalanced relationship was always something of chimera. From Wordnik.com. [‘Chimerica’ is Headed for Divorce] Reference
This was a chimera, however, which never existed but in the brain of the inventor; and. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
U.S. environmental groups recently announced a campaign to expose clean coal as a chimera. From Wordnik.com. [Dirty Coal is Winning] Reference
It was a joyous moment for the four of them, as they got out of that battle with the chimera alive. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.22: Moving Forward] Reference
This fearful presence is neither chimera of transient nightmare nor creation of evanescent day-dream. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
She was in an atmosphere of illusion and chimera; what was passing about her did not even seem to exist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The legatees of Marx, Freud and Darwin argued that morality was a chimera; it had "no basis in science and logic.". From Wordnik.com. [How About A Swift Kick?] Reference
I was more than half persuaded all along that this fancy was a mere chimera, and yet it took such force in my mind. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Others, improving on that chimera, asserted, that this glorious city represented an inheritance derived from ancient. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
The chimera of cooperation blew apart on Haiti's north coast, the country's traditional hotbed of political upheaval. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The Middle] Reference
It is hard to recall exactly when the Baku came; he has been there so long, in his chimera palace at the foot of my bed. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Eater] Reference
It occurred to him that if thinking so was childish, animistic, and all things Piaget, life was more meaningful with this chimera. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
"What a strange chimera," said Craigie, laughing, "is it to suppose a young man with seven persons capable of overturning a throne!". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Just to be clear, the film does not imagine genetically engineering our species to become a new chimera, with anatomy thus positioned. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Miah: The Human Centipede -- a Film Essay] Reference
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