Title:
Scientists hope to use tissues and cells of the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia that died last year in attempt to clone the animal
Author:
Dan Avery
Published:
Dailymail.com, 17 August 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8635721/Scientists-using-stem-cells-rescue-nearly-extinct-Sumatran-rhino-number-80.html
From the article:
Iman, the last Sumatran rhino in Malaysia, died of cancer in captivity at age 25 last November.
Attempts at breeding Iman with the last remaining male, Tam, proved unsuccessful. He succumbed to organ failure six months earlier.
But scientists at International Islamic University Malaysia harvested their tissue and cells before they died.