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Nature Medicine 13, 1133 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1007-1133

Reply to 'UK set to reverse stance on research with chimeras'

Richard Hynes1

  1. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA.
    e-mail: rohynes@mit.edu

I was very surprised that the news article on chimera research in the UK in your August issue1 contained a number of misuses of the terms 'hybrid' and 'chimera' and failed to distinguish between these two entirely distinct entities. Indeed, in places the article conflated the two terms, which is not helpful in informing the debate about these areas of research.

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