AMSTERDAM : A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.The meatball was created by Australian cultured meat company Vow which - promising this was not an April Fools' joke - said it wanted to g
AMSTERDAM : A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.
"We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now," Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told Reuters, adding that an additional reason for choosing mammoth is that scientists believe that the animal's extinction was caused by climate change."When it comes to meat, myoglobin is responsible for the aroma, the colour and the taste", James Ryall, Vow's Chief Scientific Officer explained.
"Much like they do in the movie Jurassic Park", Ryall said, stressing the biggest difference is that they were not creating actual animals.
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