Monday, July 13, 2015

Scientists successfully crowdfund black rhino genome sequencing project

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The project, which was hosted on the scientific crowdfunding platform Experiment, aims to sequence the genome of a black rhino named Ntombi

A team of scientists, led by the University of Washinton's Dr Chuck Murray, has successfully crowdfunded a project to sequence the genome of the black rhinoceros – a species that's been poached to near extinction. The effort is an important step in the conservation of the species, of which there are barely more than five thousand remaining.

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