First clone endangered Przewalski Horse Born in Conservation effort to save the species

The Przewalski’s horse first successful cloned endangered was born on August 6 in an animal facility in Texas San Diego Zoo Global announced on Friday. The horse was the DNA of a male horse through the zoo cryopreserved 1,980 Przewalski’s horses Przewalski cloned “critically endangered” animals that are found at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Mongolia. They are considered the latter types of “truly wild horses” and “distant relatives” of the modern domestic horses probably split from a common ancestor about 500,000 years to the Smithsonian. The Przewalski’s horses were once extinct in the wild, and helped the way to revive during the intensive breeding programs and reintroduce it, those born in the grasslands of China and Mongolia, which are almost all related to 12 Przewalski’s horses in the desert were San Diego zoo in its press release. namely the successful cloning of DNA collected 40 years key is to introduce the genetic diversity in the way that could benefit their survival. The zoo, said the Przewalski’s horse cloned eventually be transferred to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and a herd of Przewalski horses to other livestock. “The work on species threatened with extinction requires cooperation and committed partners with aligned goals shop,” Paul A. Baribault, president of the San Diego Zoo Global, said in a statement. “We share in this remarkable success because we used our multidisciplinary approach, in collaboration with the best scientific minds and collected valuable genetic material used and stored in our DNA biobank wildlife.” The Przewalski’s horse was cloned by Dr. Kurt Kurt Benirschke name, the creator of the San Diego Zoo Global Frozen Zoo, which is the collection and genetic material from animals endangered since 1975. San Diego Zoo Global Partnership with Revive and the restoration of a nature reserve conservation group that targets the biotechnology efforts in conservation and equine Viagen, a company that cloning of horses and pets to successfully clone the Przewalski horse to integrate. “This birth extends the possibilities of genetic rescue of wild species threatened with extinction,” said Ryan Phelan, CEO of Revive & Restore, in a statement. “The advanced reproductive technologies, including species cloning can save us by restoring the genetic diversity that would otherwise be wasted time.” Przewalski’s Horses are not the only Revive & Restore types trying to revive biotechnology. The group attempts to at least six extinct species in danger of extinction or to revive once again, including the Wooly Mammoth, the passing of the years before extinct around 4,000. Other organizations and research institutions are also trying to revive the species extinct or endangered endangered through biotechnology, including the International Islamic University Malaysia, plans to boost recently extinct rhinoceros of Sumatra.
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