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A big step toward producing rhino gametes

The last two surviving females live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya./CREDIT:Jan Stejskal, Safari Park Dvůr Králové

To save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, the BioRescue team is racing to create lab-grown egg and sperm cells of the critically endangered subspecies. The team has now reported a milestone in Science Advances: they have generated primordial germ cells from stem cells – a world’s first. Thirty-three-year-old Najin and her daughter Fatu are the last surviving northern white rhinos ...

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