Tag: IVF

News / World - 7 years ago

First test tube rhino embryos could bring extinct species back from dead

The first rhino embryos have been created in a test tube and could help save the northern white rhino, which is essentially extinct. There are just two northern white rhino (NWR) females left alive. The last male, called Sudan, died in March in Keny...

News / World - 8 years ago

Sudan the rhino is dead. But his sperm could save the species | Helen Pilcher

On Tuesday morning, I woke to the news that Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, had died. The 45-year-old animal was euthanised at his home in the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. He was old and he was ill. His time had come. Although...