{"id":1189006,"date":"2023-10-04T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189006"},"modified":"2023-10-04T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:02:00","slug":"usfws-is-creating-a-frozen-library-of-biodiversity-to-help-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189006","title":{"rendered":"USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity To Help Endangered Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiley Price writes via Inside Climate News: In a new initiative announced on Tuesday, the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service is working with the nonprofit Revive &amp; Restore and other partners to create a &#8220;genetic library&#8221; of the country&#8217;s endangered species &#8212; before it&#8217;s too late. Through a process called biobanking, FWS field staff are gathering biological samples such as blood, tissues and reproductive cells from animals to be cryogenically preserved at extremely low temperatures (at least -256 degrees Fahrenheit) and stored at a USDA facility in Colorado. The samples will also be genetically sequenced and this information will be uploaded to a publicly available database called GenBank, where researchers can study them and compare their genomes to other members of their species.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=USFWS+Is+Creating+a+Frozen+Library+of+Biodiversity+To+Help+Endangered+Species%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F04%2F2232253%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-155.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F04%2F2232253%2Fusfws-is-creating-a-frozen-library-of-biodiversity-to-help-endangered-species%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-78.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/04\/2232253\/usfws-is-creating-a-frozen-library-of-biodiversity-to-help-endangered-species?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/04\/2232253\/usfws-is-creating-a-frozen-library-of-biodiversity-to-help-endangered-species?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity To Help Endangered Species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiley Price writes via Inside Climate News: In a new initiative announced on Tuesday, the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service is working with the nonprofit Revive &amp; Restore and other partners to create a &#8220;genetic library&#8221; of the country&#8217;s endangered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1189006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}