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Ruth Appeltant, Assistant research professor, University of Antwerp

How to grow rhinos in a lab: the science that could save an endangered species

Najin, one of two northern white rhinos left in the world, grazes in a paddock in Kenya. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

There are several parallel projects running across the world to save the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum), one of Africa’s captivating and iconic wildlife species. With the death of last male in 2018 and with only two females alive, the species is functionally extinct.

The most famous of these projects is an international research consortium called BioRescue. It was founded in 2019 by a team of scientists and conservationists under the leadership of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany.

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