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Scientists have published the first peer-reviewed account of creating pig–human hybrid fetuses, a step toward growing animals with organs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. The team that made these chimaeras also reports the creation of mouse–rat and human–cow hybrids on 26 January in Cell  [....]  To create chimaeras, scientists generally inject pluripotent stem cells — which can become any type of organ — from one species into the early embryo of a second species. In theory, the foreign cells should differentiate and spread throughout the body, but in practice, producing viable hybrid embryos has proven difficult. [....]
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Paging Doctor Moreau!  Paging Doctor Moreau!  You're wanted in the hybrid-research lab! "
H.G. Wells 1896:
The Island of Doctor Moreau. W. Heinemann Ltd.: London (Eng.).
Its
Wikipedia article has links to its 3 movie versions (altho' its first: Dec. 1932, was titled
The Island of Lost Souls[×]), plus at least 1 free on-line version of the book (via Project Gutenberg):
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau>.
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Note × (
warning): Some readers might object to the main image for the
first film version's
Wikipedia article, which (as of the last few days) is its most colorful movie poster, and graphically features its "Panther Woman" character, to be unacceptably immodest.