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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Cryogenics are used in a lot of different fields: from rocket science to the preservation and transportation of blood or vaccines. Some people even believe that cryogenic technologies may be a possible way to defeat death in some way \u2013 for example, by freezing the terminally ill until the moment in future when a cure is discovered. Paignton Zoo in Devon is struggling to save endangered animals by using cryogenic technologies to freeze their genetic samples.<\/p>\n

The zoo has teamed up with Nature\u2019s SAFE in order to try and save the DNA of an estimated 40,000 species that are currently at risk of becoming extinct. In order to achieve that, the researchers will be using \u201cunique processing and storage techniques\u201d that will allow them to preserve multiple tissue and reproductive cell samples from the endangered species in a living state at -196\u00baC.<\/p>\n

Such samples are collected from animals that die or are neutered at the zoo, and the team expects that the partnership with Nature\u2019s SAFE \u2013 one of Europe\u2019s largest living biobanks \u2013 will help add critical samples to the 80 species that the biobank has already obtained.<\/p>\n

According to Wild Planet Trust\u2019s Steve Nash, \u201ctime is running out\u201d for a lot of species, and the zoo\u2019s initiative may act as a safeguard for such animals.<\/p>\n

Due to the use of cryogenic technologies, these species can possibly be brought back to life with the use of their genetic material in \u201c10, 20, 30, 1,000 years\u201d, as put by Tullis Matson, co-founder of Nature\u2019s SAFE.<\/p>\n

Paignton Zoo is not the first one to launch such initiatives; a similar project was started by the San Diego zoo. It began collecting skin samples from rare animals in 1972, hoping they would be used in the future to protect the endangered species. The initiative was later named Frozen Zoo, and in 2020 it achieved a milestone of 10,000 cell lines cryo-frozen for the future.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Cryogenics are used in a lot of different fields: from rocket science to the preservation and transportation of blood or vaccines. Some people even believe that cryogenic technologies may be a possible way to defeat death in some way \u2013 for example, by freezing the terminally ill until the moment in future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-14041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Future is Here? 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