In early July, the ephemeral promise of a new life blinked into existence. Not in the usual way, but on a clear microscope slide in a sterile lab in Cremona, Italy, thousands of miles from the creature’s ancestral territory in sub-Saharan Africa. Shortly after, lab technicians plunged it into liquid nitrogen, freezing the creature’s development by rapidly bringing its temperature to −196° Celsius (-321° Fahrenheit).
Though only a few cells in size, the embryo, one of three produced this spring, represents hope for the virtually extinct northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/creation-of-three-new-northern-white-rhinos-embryos-may-indicate-hope-for-other-rhino-species/
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