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Stem-cell plan aims to bring rhino back from brink of extinction
Nature (UK) ^ | 05.03.2016 | Ewen Callaway

Posted on 05/07/2016 11:29:02 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

In a last-gasp effort, researchers this week unveiled the details of an audacious plan to save the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)

(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: helixmakemineadouble; rhino
Don't do it!
1 posted on 05/07/2016 11:29:02 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Yep, Trump has put the RINOs in danger of extinction.


2 posted on 05/07/2016 11:30:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ameribbean expat

I thought the headline was misspelled and they were trying to save Paul Ryan.


3 posted on 05/07/2016 11:31:31 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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ROFLMAO!! :)


4 posted on 05/07/2016 11:34:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: The Continental Op

Pretty clear where this thread is headed.


5 posted on 05/07/2016 11:34:39 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: ameribbean expat

One VelociRhino coming up!


6 posted on 05/07/2016 11:35:15 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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audacious plan to save the northern white rhino

Some comedic fruit is so low-hanging that one would have to be supine to reach it. I think I will leave the fruit there...

7 posted on 05/07/2016 11:37:28 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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8 posted on 05/07/2016 11:37:57 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away After America , There is No Place to Go)
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9 posted on 05/07/2016 12:54:51 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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It’s fine to store the genome, but to bring a species back the brink for which there is no safe habitat is to make them the first welfare species. There is no place they can survive on their own. So, will the taxpayers then have to start supporting dozens or hundreds of species that will die off the moment there is a blip in our civilization? The blip could be war, EMP or even an extended transportation strike that limits food supplies. Such things will happen and do happen periodically. We have been extraordinarily lucky in that the US has been able to dictate generous terms and the world had to take them. But we are being undermined by our own elected officials, greatly increasing the chances of world-wide disaster. The fewer things dependent on us, the better.


10 posted on 05/07/2016 3:15:34 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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to bring a species back the brink for which there is no safe habitat is to make them the first welfare species

My thought as well, although "first welfare species" might more accurately describe the giant panda.

11 posted on 05/07/2016 3:41:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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