Whether or not you think that sealed endangered animals are worth all the fuss — * coughpandascough*—judging by the internet’srecent , excited titteringover a potential panda pregnancy , the bulk of people are very much pro - animal realm multifariousness . So much so , in fact , that a team of Nipponese scientists has begin freezing - dry out sealed endangered fauna ’ sperm in the hopes of one day fetch them with us to other satellite .
https://gizmodo.com/should-we-just-let-pandas-die-off-already-5841175
So far , the team at Kyoto University ’s Institute of Laboratory Animals Graduate School of Medicine has successfully preserve the sperm of two unlike endangered archpriest and a species of giraffe . This sperm cell is being stored for a very , very long haul , though , and if this stuff really is going to last until we ’re ready to blast off , it ask to be incredibly stable . To puzzle out this problem , Takehito Kaneko , an associate prof working on the discipline , commingle the animals ’ child juice with a particular preservative before halt - dry out the mix , leave it to safely exist at a nerveless — but still much warm than other methods would require—39 degrees Fahrenheit .
Before any of this could begin , though , the researchers test the mental process on sperm cell sample from lowlife and mice to fantastic results — they were still able to prove the full viability of the rat ’ little swimmers five years later . As Kaneko toldAgence France - Press :
In this way of life , scientists will be able to obtain genetic information more easily , which means we could help to preserve endangered animal species . This may vocalize like a dream , but we could in future take genetic information into space . Now we have to apply fresh testicle or those icy conventionally , but we are hit the books methods to stop dead - teetotal eggs as well .
good still , the sperm would even be capable to pull through if computer memory science lab suffered a power failure — take over the outage only lasted a scant period of prison term , of course . As of now , though , all we really have is a whole mess of giraffe sperm and nothing to do with it . The real magic trick wo n’t add up until we picture out how to apply like techniques to the beast ’ eggs . And when that bump , who knows — one daylight , your heavy - grandchild might wake up every Martian morning only to hitch a ride to school on the near roaming outer space panda . [ AFPviaDesign Taxi ]
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