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22 May 2022

Cryogenic Noah’s Ark: how a frozen biobank could save animal species

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Many pet owners may wish they could clone their beloved pets. And the idea isn’t science fiction – if you have the money.

But now one conservationist is working to achieve an ambition much bigger than reproducing a much-loved pooch – the creation of a living biobank to cryogenically freeze samples from every animal species in the world.