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Thursday, October 22, 2020

From the News: San Diego Zoo scientists clone endangered horse

 San Diego Zoo scientists revive cells from 40-year deep freeze to clone endangered horse

You may have heard of Dolly, the sheep - now meet Kurt, the horse!  Specifically, Kurt is a newborn Przewalski's wild horse, originally found on the steppes of Central Asia.  But Kurt's story is much more complicated than that.  You see, he is a clone from a horse that had its cells frozen 40 years ago.  It's the latest in the struggle to use advances in reproductive technology to save endangered species - possibly even having the potential to bring recently-extinct species back to life.





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