About the two rhinos, do we have the technology to keep genetic material from animals that are endangered so we can reintroduce them later? I realize the population would be too much of a monoculture, but maybe it's better than nothing.
SD zoo just made a horse!
https://www.cbs58.com/news/a-clone-of-the-endangered-przewal...
First of all, there's no money in it. So the technical reasons, whatever they are, don't really matter.
Second, I don't think it's that simple to just apply CRISPR to this problem, like CRISPR is some kind of magic bullet. This would be asking way more of CRISPR than previous experiments by orders of magnitude. It would be like asking the Wright brothers when they're going to scale their flying technology to get to Mars.
Without this map, how would we are going to be able to use a technique that alters genes and efficiently change nucleotides to avoid recessive traits?