IVF breakthrough could revive nearly extinct rhino | ABC News
· 25.01.2024 · 05:51:38 ··· ··· Thursday ·· 4 (4)
ABC News (Australia) Scientists have carried out the first successful embryo transfer in a southern white rhino using a method that could pave the way to saving its critically endangered northern cousin from extinction.
The last male northern white rhino died in 2018. Just two female members remain now and they're under 24-hour armed protection at a sanctuary in Kenya.
But Najin and Fatu cannot carry a pregnancy to term, making the subspecies functionally extinct.
In a last chance at survival, scientists from the German-backed BioRescue consortium are turning to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to attempt to implant a lab-grown embryo in a related subspecies of southern white rhino.
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