Chuck Murry

Chuck Murry

Jul 21, 2015

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Media Wrap Up

After we got funded, a ton of media articles came out about our project! (would have been nice to be published *while* we were fundraising haha)

Here's a wonderful article talking in-depth about co-sponsor Pembient, a company bioengineering wildlife products to fight poaching

And here's a nice list of links to various press coverage!

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/13/how...

http://europe.newsweek.com/extinct-black-rhinos-su...

http://www.sciencealert.com/crowdfunding-has-just-...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-sci...

https://www.inverse.com/article/4138-sequencing-th...

We'll let you all know when we start sequencing! Right now we're in the process of procuring Ntombi's sample.

And always, feel free to reach out with any ideas, questions, comments or concerns!

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About This Project

We are sequencing the genome of a beautiful black rhino. Her name is Ntombi, and she is one of only 5,055 black rhinos alive in the world. Three out of eight original subspecies have been poached to extinction and the remaining five subspecies are critically endangered. With Ntombi's genome sequence we will be able to advance scientists' understanding of this endangered species that has played a critical role in our ecosystem for over 50 million years.

Blast off!

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