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Is There a Shelf Life on Cryogenic Conservation?
There's a company in the US called Revive and Restore that has done cloning of endangered species. They have these just big canisters of liquid nitrogen that they can keep at such a low temperature. The difference between the black-footed ferret, I think, slightly is that the environment that it lives in still exists. Whereas the big problem with a lot of these cryogenic conservation projects is that we may not have the environment to release them in. Unless we sort that out, what are we going to do? It's strange. We get most of it, but nature gets sort of 30%. That's the key target that was being talked about by the UN. And then you kind
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