chimera

They mixed cells that had been developing for a year together with others that were only two weeks old, creating a "chimera".

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

And like this suggestion, the chimera named Barbenheimer was born on the Internet.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Also known as a spookfish or chimera, ghost sharks are closely related to sharks and rays.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

Freud, who catalyzed the study of dreams with his foundational 1899 treatise, would have discounted this as a mere chimera of the wishful unconscious.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

I felt satisfaction be­cause such a geology confirmed that I was right, that this island was a chimera, a play of the mind.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

This approach, which involves generating only skin tissue, could help avoid ethical concerns about using human-animal chimeras to produce organs for medical use.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

These include naive cells, which act like cells from a preimplantation embryo and are more readily incorporated, and primed pluripotent stem cells, which act like postimplantation cells and can’t be incorporated into chimeras at all.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023

Then there are the men who pursue more fanciful chimeras, the imagi-makers whose visions helped to give L.A. its reputation as a place where quirky notions can find fertile purchase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

But the report also noted that scientists at the WIV have engineered "chimeras", or combinations of coronaviruses, and used reverse genetic cloning techniques that could hide intentional changes.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023

But the images broke up of their own accord, weightless chimeras routed by a numbness that ran through him unchallenged.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy