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Hybrid white-rhino embryos created in last-ditch effort to stop extinction

DNA of northern white rhino — of which only two remain — mixed with that of close subspecies in a bid towards growing population using surrogates.
  1. Helen Thomson
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Researchers have created hybrid rhino embryos as part of a 'Hail-Mary' attempt to rescue the northern white rhinoceros from all but certain extinction.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05636-6

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