The idea for lab-grown rhino horns emerged at a time when genetic engineering, from cultured meat to milk, was an increasingly popular and expanding industry. Pembient CEO Matthew Markus launched his ...

Rhino embryos created in a lab are raising hopes that high-tech assisted reproduction may help save the northern white rhino, the most endangered mammal in the world. Only two of these rhinos are ...

Humanity may be able to save the northern white rhino after all, thanks to scientists who managed to create two in vitro embryos. When Sudan, the last male northern white rhino left at the Ol Pejeta ...

Late at night in his dorm room, Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw — a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam. It was 2011 when Hoang, a ...

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When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the... Late at night in his dorm room, Huyen Hoang was ...