Established in 1978, Astec Bio designs, manufactures, and sells state-of-the-art medical laboratory equipment for the Assisted Reproductive Industry worldwide. For over 45 years, Astec has been a dependable partner for universities, institutes, research laboratories, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies where science has been making a perceptible difference to build a better future for all.
Nature’s SAFE is one of Europe’s largest dedicated facilities capable of the long-term storage of live cells from animal species that are at the greatest risk of extinction.
Together we will be incubating the future.
Nature’s SAFE is working with leading reproductive scientists and cryobiologists to actively collect a wide range of animal tissue, cell and gonadal specimens, predominantly donated by our expanding network of zoo partners. Our scientists are currently developing protocols that focus on culturing cell lines recovered from these tissues with a view to cryopreservation for future use that can ultimately regenerate species.
Incubators donated by Astec Co.,Ltd. will be used primarily for cell culture, oocyte maturation and embryo culture from a wide variety of species, many of which are critically endangered or even at the point of extinction. Having the ability to separate the various cultures between the incubators is vital to maintain a safe and biologically secure environment for the many taxa and cell types being preserved in parallel. The incubators will also enable us to scale up our operations considerably, providing an opportunity to conserve more species in a shorter space of time and help us to develop optimised protocols for cryopreservation much faster than we would otherwise be able to.
Time is of the essence to protect as many species as possible, as quickly as possible, and the Astec incubators play an integral role in helping us to achieve this goal.
You can visit Astec at https://www.astec-bio.com/global/about/
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Smew
Total Population: Around 80,000 in the wild
Bar-headed goose
Total Population: 97,000 - 118,000 in the wild
Mandarin duck
Total Population: Around 65,000 in the wild
Spix’s night monkey
Total Population: Unknown
Black tree monitor
Total Population: Unknown
Southern white rhino
Total Population: Around 15,000 in the wild
Little egret
Total Population: 660,000 to 3,150,000 in the wild
South American fur seal
Total Population: Around 200,000 in the wild
Red-footed tortoise
Total Population: Unknown
White naped mangabey
Total Population: Around 1,000 in the wild
Sacred ibis
Total Population: 200,000 to 450,000 in the wild
Okapi
Total Population: Less than 25,000 in the wild
Common Hippo
Total Population: Less than 150,000 in the wild
Asiatic Lion
Total Population: Around 650 in the wild
Asian short-clawed otter
Total Population: Unknown
Pygmy marmoset
Total Population: Unknown
Sumatran laughing thrush
Total Population: 2,500 - 10,000 in the wild
Clouded Leopard
Total Population: Less than 10,000 in the wild
Sloth bear
Total Population: Less than 20,000 in the wild
African wild dog
Total Population: Around 6,600 in the wild
Arctic wolf
Total Population: Around 200,000 in the wild
