Australian company produces mammoth meatball from recreated flesh [Video]

Here’s the scoop!

• Australian company Vow has produced a meatball made from the recreated flesh of a woolly mammoth as part of a project to demonstrate the potential of growing flesh from cells.
• Vow aims to transition meat eaters away from eating conventional animal protein to eating cultivated meat instead, and has already explored the potential of more than 50 species.
• The company’s project doesn’t involve the slaughter of animals and highlights the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.

Australian company Vow has created a meatball made from the recreated flesh of a woolly mammoth as part of a project to show how flesh can be grown from cells.

The mammoth snack was produced using the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein which gives meat its flavour, and filled in the gaps using DNA from an elephant. The sequence was placed in …