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 ...

Biobanking, like the Poo Zoo or the Frozen Zoo in San Diego, can help preserve the tissues of the animals for use now and for future ways we can’t even fathom yet.

The facility, also known as a "frozen zoo," stores sperm from 54 species, including Malayan tapirs and koalas, and ova from three species. Frozen sperm and ova Similar facilities are currently ...

Also on view in the lab will be the frozen zoo. This ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned her locks into a ...

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 ...

The frozen collections include: Front Royal Biorepository/Genome Resource Bank (National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute) The National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute maintains a valuable ...