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.

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cases in which a male patient receives a heart from a female donor provide an unusual opportunity to test whether primitive cells translocate from the recipient to the graft and whether cells with the ...

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 ...