thank your god for big mercyds,like the saving of Pandas
way it is
dont strive for the BS perfection of not interferig with what we caused in the first place
Researchers create northern white rhino embryos to save species
An international group of scientists is hoping to bring the northern white rhino back from the brink of extinction. With only two females left in the world, they are turning to a sub-species for help.
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Scientists are hoping to impregnate the closely-related southern white rhino — the most abundant rhino sub-species in the world — using harvested eggs from the last two northern white rhino cows and frozen sperm collected from four rhino bulls before their deaths, an international science consortium said on Wednesday.
Read more: Scientists fertilize eggs from last northern white rhinos
Turning point in assisted reproduction
Two northern white rhino in-vitro embryos were successfully created at Avantea Laboratories in Cremona, Italy.
"These are early embryos that have a very high potential to develop into a baby. [They] have now been put in liquid nitrogen. We have achieved a new life, a new hope for this species," Thomas Hildebrandt, project head at the Leibnitz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, a consortium partner in the project, told DW.
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It's hoped a southern white rhino cow can act as a surrogate for the embryos
Researchers from Kenya, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Germany are still fine-tuning the implantation procedure before the embryos are transferred into a surrogate mother, but are hopeful a northern white rhino calf can be born via surrogacy within the next three years.
Mother's bond
The remaining two cows, mother Najin and daughter Fatu, live in a Kenyan sanctuary. The
last bull, Fatu's father, Sudan, died in March, 2018.
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Sudan, the last remaining northern white rhino, died in 2018
Genetic reasons mean neither cow can breed.
Researchers create northern white rhino embryos to save species | DW | 11.09.2019
