SAN DIEGO, May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty years ago, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance's Frozen Zoo ® began preserving living genetic material, long before scientists knew how it might be used.

Preservation of animal genetic material poses its own unique set of challenges — ones that the San Diego “Frozen Zoo” don’t shy away from. They’ve recently shown the viability of the ...

The Frozen Zoo is the safe haven for samples from 1,220 species. The cryobank has provided genetic material to revive rare species like Przewalski's horse and the black-footed ferret through cloning.

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) The Frozen Zoo is the world's first large-scale, systematic cryogenic (frozen) biological bank dedicated to preserving living cells and reproductive material from wildlife ...

He was cloned from skin cells taken from a stallion in 1980 and safeguarded at the Frozen Zoo, the organization’s repository of 10,000 cell lines from more than 1,100 species and subspecies.

But in the middle of Melbourne, a frozen zoo could be a lifeline for wildlife species around the country. Researchers from Museums Victoria and Melbourne University have started to collect tissue ...

In hopes of using the stallion’s DNA to breed more Przewalski’s horses, researchers at the San Diego Zoo Global froze a sample of his skin cells in their Frozen Zoo, a menagerie of 10,000 cell ...