“A biotech company and a U.S. government agency announced on Thursday a plan to create an archive of living cells and genomic material for ​every species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in a project to safeguard roughly 2,300 types of animals and plants deemed threatened or endangered.

Texas-based Colossal Biosciences ‌said it reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the ambitious biodiversity preservation initiative.

The planned BioVault will be a cryogenic archive for endangered species that stores living cells, reproductive tissues and genomic DNA, with an aim to preserve these samples before populations collapse past the point of recovery, according to Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm.”

From Reuters.