Northern white rhino saved by synthetic genetic diversity engineering + artificial wombs

Northern white rhino saved by synthetic genetic diversity engineering + artificial wombs | there are 18 embryos are related. But if you can engineer in genetic diversity from that uh both synthetically and from from lost specimens and then productionize it through artificial wounds, the $25 million that people are spending a year keeping two animals alive, you know, you could use a piece of that to productionize it

there are 18 embryos are related. But if you can engineer in genetic diversity from that uh both synthetically and from from lost specimens and then productionize it through artificial wounds, the $25 million that people are spending a year keeping two animals alive, you know, you could use a piece of that to productionize it

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  "caveats": "Conditional on engineering genetic diversity + artificial wombs",
  "context": "if you can engineer in genetic diversity from that uh both synthetically and from from lost specimens and then productionize it through artificial wounds, the $25 million that people are spending a year keeping two animals alive, you know, you could use a piece of that to productionize it",
  "verbatim": "there are 18 embryos are related. But if you can engineer in genetic diversity from that uh both synthetically and from from lost specimens and then productionize it through artificial wounds, the $25 million that people are spending a year keeping two animals alive, you know, you could use a piece of that to productionize it",
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