Embryo transfer brings hope of averting extinction of white rhinos

IVF Breakthrough Could Save Northern White Rhinos From Extinction

In September of 2023, an international team of researchers successfully performed the first embryo transfers in southern white rhinos. 'The Guardian' reports that the breakthrough could save the critically endangered northern rhino from the very brink of extinction.

A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.

Científicos logran la primera fecundación in vitro de un rinoceronte blanco

Científicos lograron la primera fertilización in vitro de un rinoceronte blanco del Sur, marcando un avance significativo hacia el objetivo de preservar la especie en peligro de extinción, específicamente el rinoceronte blanco del Norte, que actualmente cuenta solo con dos hembras en todo el mundo.“Logramos algo que se creía imposible”, expresó el líder del proyecto, el alemán Thomas Hildebrandt, durante una conferencia de prensa celebrada en Be…

There are only two Northern White rhinos left. Pioneering IVF pregnancy could now save the species

This could be the last hope for northern white rhinoceroses.

A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. The experiment was conducted with the less endangered southern white rhino subspecies. Researchers created an embryo in a lab from an egg and sperm collected from rhinos and transferred into a southern white rhino …