Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Scientists say they’ve used human test-tube baby techniques to try to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino. In an improbable experiment, they are trying to resurrect an entire species using dead males, two infertile remaining females, and some closely related southern white rhinos. And they say they also plan to use stem-cell technology to try to create a population of pure northern white rhinos in the lab. The European team of researchers created a few early-stage rhino embryos using a technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI. They used sperm from the last northern white rhino males before they died. Some of this sperm was injected into egg cells taken from females of the southern white rhino subspecies. They ended up with a handful of embryos, some of which could potentially be implanted into surrogate rhino mothers. While any … [Read more...] about Scientists use test-tube science to save nearly extinct rhino
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Can texting help chemo patients? Reuters Health story keeps most study details on the DL
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Gene test for depression treatment: Realistic patient story helps keep WSJ article grounded
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Independent viewpoint helps round out HealthDay story on impact of earlier mammograms
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Significant conflicts of interest not disclosed in LA Times story on modified Pap tests
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