White rhinos could be frozen to preserve numbers against poachers
HEALTHY mice have been cloned from the dead brain cells of animals frozen 16 years ago. The stored mice had been chilled using no elaborate cryogenic techniques, so the hope is that populations of endangered species such as the Northern white rhino (pictured) could one day be boosted using cells extracted from carcasses simply tossed into freezers.
of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues modified a technique , in which the nucleus of a mouse cell – in this…
