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Virus stalls work to keep alive a rare rhino subspecies

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NANYUKI – It’s not quite a case of coitus interruptus, but efforts to create a very special baby are definitely on hold.

Blame the pandemic. Groundbreaking work to keep alive the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies — population, two — by in-vitro fertilization has been stalled by travel restrictions.

And time is running out. The two northern white rhinos are female. The goal is to create viable embryos in a lab by inseminating their eggs with frozen sperm from dead males, then transfer them into a surrogate mother, a more common southern white rhino.

As of January, three embryos had been created and stored in liquid nitrogen. But further key steps now have to wait. “It has been disrupted by COVID-19, like everything else,” said

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