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

Metcalfe’s pursuit of revelation in a single lost poem is magical thinking, a relentless grasping for a chimera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

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

The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The Nature Nanotechnology perspective, "Nanoparticle-mediated targeting chimeras transform targeted protein degradation," explores how this technology works and where it could be applied.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

Assemblages by Teresa Tolliver build fantastic chimeras from trophy-like lion sculptures cobbled together from scavenged elements — “Wild Things,” she calls them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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