Australian startup creates woolly mammoth meatball using DNA technology.
TL;DR
Australian cultivated food company Vow claims to have produced the first meat product made from mammoth DNA by using advanced molecular engineering to resurrect the woolly mammoth in meatball form, by combining original mammoth DNA with fragments of an African elephant’s DNA. The company identified the mammoth myoglobin, a protein that is key to giving meat its color and taste, and then used publicly available data to identify the DNA sequence in mammoths. The mammoth meatball is set to be officially unveiled at NEMO Science Museum in the Netherlands today.
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- Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball TechCrunch
- Meatballs made with mammoth DNA created by Australian food startup CNN
- Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm The Guardian
- Giant meatball of extinct mammoth unveiled in The Netherlands Reuters
- Scientists create woolly mammoth meatball — but are too scared to eat it New York Post
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