Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced a sequencing agreement with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA)’s Frozen Zoo®. The 50-year-old biobank is the world’s most comprehensive and diverse ...
Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study. “Any threat that reduces the size of a population, or which causes a larger population to become ...
The field of genetics is undergoing a quiet revolution, and it’s happening in the laboratories where scientists are learning to resurrect the genetic blueprints of extinct species. What began as an ...
SDG 15 - Life on Land. Many species face extinction due to stresses such as climate change and habitat loss. Understanding the genetic diversity that provides population resilience is key to ...
1 The extinction vortex, is genetic variation related to extinction?; 2 How to measure genetic variation; 3 Inbreeding, geographic subdivision, and gene flow; 4 Genetic diversity in changing ...
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is marking 50 years of its groundbreaking Frozen Zoo, a unique biobank that preserves living cells from over 1,300 species and subspecies. This ...
An Asiatic cheetah at Tehran's Pardisan Park - Copyright AFP Fabrice COFFRINI An Asiatic cheetah at Tehran's Pardisan Park - Copyright AFP Fabrice COFFRINI This week ...
In Nara, Japan, the revered sika deer faces a dilemma as their escalating population damages local farmlands. A new study has revealed a complex situation: while the sanctuary's deer upholds a ...
In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ferret, ...