Sara: Saudi Arabia’s first humanoid robot reflects national values

allowing for everything from viewing messages to playing holographic games.

said in a call with reporters.is where conservation efforts should be focused -- on existing viable populations -- not those with two inbred females.

Sara: Saudi Arabia’s first humanoid robot reflects national values

so they instead used eggs from the rhinos closely related subspecies.and turn them into stem cells that can be manipulated into both sperm and eggs.I think we have a moral obligation to try [these lab methods].

Sara: Saudi Arabia’s first humanoid robot reflects national values

Hildebrandt and company hope to accomplish a complete northern white rhino embryo transplant in about a year.it then has to be implanted into a southern white rhino surrogate mother.

Sara: Saudi Arabia’s first humanoid robot reflects national values

Theres still lots of challenges.

citing the groups past experience with artificially inseminating southern white rhinos.the researchers will also need to employ sophisticated methods to diversify the rhino genes.

weve killed them for their horns.thats not a genetically viable population.

an embryo must be created in a laboratory.some leading conservationists argue.

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