A human–animal hybrid is a hypothetical organism that incorporates elements from both humans and non-human animals. In a technical sense, a human–animal hybrid would be defined as an organism in which
An artist's impression of a humanzee, or chimpanzee-human hybrid
President George W. Bush, pictured here in 2008 with then Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to his side, has advocated for increased regulation of genetic engineering, including on research mixing animal and human elements.
The pig-like hybrid being Zhu Bajie, pictured in this piece of fan art, plays a major role in the famous Ming dynasty era religious novel Journey to the West.
This image depicts a set of Tanuki statues on the side of a Japanese road.
A humanized mouse is a genetically modified mouse that has functioning human genes, cells, tissues and/or organs. Humanized mice are commonly used as small animal models in biological and medical rese
Human–animal hybrid
…organism. (A human chimera, by contrast, consists entirely of human cells from different zygotes.) Examples of human–animal hybrids mainly include humanized mice that have been genetically modified by xenotransplantation of human genes. Humanized mice are commonly used as small animal models in biological and…
The athymic nude mouse: the pioneering immunodeficient model that paved the way for humanized mouse research.
Schematic representation of the checkpoints for generating a humanized mouse model.
Xenograft of a prostate cancer cell line (LNCaP) into an immunodeficient mouse.