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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

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The Future of Cryopreservation

In 2020, we cloned Elizabeth Ann. She's the first endangered species in America to ever be cloned. Less than 14% of US endangered species have any form of cryopreservation. That includes plants and animals out of the 1500. We're trying to actually bank species for the present to help make better management decisions based on their DNA.

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