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This ‘Poo Zoo’ is harvesting living cells from animal dung | CNN

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Oxford University professor Suzannah Williams has developed a new method to collect living cell samples from elephant dung.

Living cells contain DNA and genetic information, which can help researchers understand species diversity and inform breeding programs or conservation efforts.

Conservationists often track animals via their footprints, which could provide an opportunity for collection in the wild.

The team has now successfully isolated multiple living cells, multiple times, from elephant feces.

The Poo Zoo hopes to collect cells from feces that can be used to create embryos for artificial insemination.

Biobanking is still a long way off, but could provide a low-cost solution to gather genetic data in both zoos and the wild.

Scientists are exploring more species to refine their methodology.

“If that was an option versus doing this, I’d stop there. But it’s not; therefore we do this kind of work that I think is very, very important.”.

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