The other is the hope that chimeric animals might one day provide a source of organs to be transplanted into sick humans.

另一个希望是有朝一日嵌合动物或许能提供可移植给患者的器官。

The researchers found 126 different sorts of cellto-cell interactions among monkey cells in the chimeric embryos, compared with just 19 in non-chimeric ones, as well as differences in the activity levels of many genes.

研究人员发现，嵌合胚胎中的猴子细胞之间有126种不同类型的细胞间相互作用，而在非嵌合体中只有19种。此外许多基因的活性水平也存在差异。