chimeric

Engineering mesenchymal stromal cells with chimeric antigen receptors shows potential in enhancing their ability to target specific cells or markers and improve their therapeutic impact.

Together, they tumble through Joel’s tangled and chimeric subconscious in quotidian montages of early bliss and innocent flirtations.

The genes enable the cells to produce proteins on their surface, called chimeric antigen receptors, that recognize proteins on cancer cells; when reinfused, the engineered T cell binds to cells, destroying them.

This "chimeric" monkey is composed of cells that originate from two genetically distinct embryos of the same species of monkey.

Along the way this subtropical plant developed the ability to induce the host plant to grow into the parasite's own flesh -- forming chimeric organs that mix host and parasite tissues.