'Rewinding human mistakes': can IVF save the world's most threatened species?

Technology, viewed as last-ditch insurance policy, this week led to first successful white rhino embryo transferNajin and her daughter Fatu, the world's last two living northern white rhinos, inhabit an evolutionary twilight zone: the last living proof of a lineage that stretches back millions of years but is functionally extinct.But this week, scientists came a step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of oblivion by performing the first successful embryo transfer in a related white rhino species. Continue reading...