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Could stem cells rescue an endangered species?

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Scientists have made reprogrammed stem cells from an endangered rhinoceros and a monkey.

Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.

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Callaway, E. Could stem cells rescue an endangered species?. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.517

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