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Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the dead

By Peter Aldhous

23 June 2010

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Not a father in sight. Endangered drill monkeys could be the first to benefit from this kind of breeding program

(Image: Cyril Ruoso/Minden Pictures)

TAKE frozen cells from a dead animal, reprogram them to become sperm and eggs, then use these to bring endangered species back from the brink.

That’s the aim of a collaboration between the San Diego zoo and The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. At the in San Francisco last week, Inbar Friedrich Ben-Nun and of Scripps described how they have created…

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