Kilos so. Durants is leading an effort to bring back the northern white rhino with a precious clutch of the animal stem cells and an audacious plan. A stem cell is a cell that has the potential to be any other cell in the body eventually they want we want to differentiate him all the way to sperm eggs but theres a big catch female rhino anatomy it turns out is complicated the cervix which you have to go through to deposit the semen is very convoluted it looks like a series of rings like this so we have to go in a series of switchback turns so were going to have to have something that is very flexible that can go around all those curves and thats where engineering Professor Mike comes in he wasnt thinking about impregnating rhinos when he developed this flexible robotic catheter for microsurgery but it turns out its perfect for the job weve developed the robotic tool that is very thin long flexible device that we can very accurately steer through these narrow channels so that we can get
For those who don t know, Situ is the first black South African to win Paralympic gold at the 2000 Sydney Games and is a two-time world javelin champion.