Strategy to Save Northern White Rhino Is Launched; New Genetic Technologies Offer Hope for Species

With support from the Seaver Institute, geneticists at San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research are taking the initial steps in an effort to use cryopreserved cells to bring back the northern white rhino from the brink of extinction. Living cells banked in the Frozen ZooA have preserved the genetic lineage of 12 northern white rhinos, including a male that recently passed away at the Safari Park.

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