Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned ferret, spurs hope for endangered species

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US scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the country

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“Although this research is preliminary, it is the first cloning of a native endangered species in North America, and it provides a promising tool for continued efforts to conserve the black-footed ferret,” Noreen Walsh, director of the service’s Mountain-Prairie Region, said. That puts limitations on the species’ genetic diversity, creating challenges for resilience to changing environments and emerging disease threats.

The Wyoming Game & Fish Department had the foresight to preserve her genes and sent tissue samples from Willa to San Diego Zoo Global’s Frozen Zoo in 1988. Years later, that provided viable cell cultures for the project.

 

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If we can find an honest politician, we should clone them too, although it is strongly believed they have been extinct for 20 or more years

It bad enough as it is with the warmongers & their media putting the world at risk and now if they can play God, it will be all MONEY & POWER and that's the risk to humanity.

Born 30 years old?

Is it indigenous American or non-indigenous American like Trump?

Which will inevitably develop a taste for human blood and slaughter some college kids on summer break at a lake.

Brilliant. I hope there will me many more excellent scientific advances in the weirdfuture.

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