March of the chimeras

Paging Dr. Moreau... Dr. Moreau to the white courtesy phone... Chimera:

A mythological creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent; one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.

A grotesquerie of the imagination.

An organism that contains cells or tissues with a different genotype. These can be mutated cells of the host organism or cells from a different organism or species.

Reuters, on 9 Sept 2005:

Transplants of animal organs into people could take place within a few years because of the acute shortages of donated human organs, a leading scientist said on Friday [9 Sept 2005].

I'm of two minds of this... On the one hand, the need for this technology is great, and, well, it is kinda cool. On the other hand...