Australian startup creates mammoth-sized meatball from lab-grown DNA.

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Vow, a startup that specializes in lab-grown meat, unveiled a meatball made from mammoth meat at a science museum in the Netherlands. The meatball was created using genetic information from the extinct mammoth and a sheep cell. Vow is not vouching for the safety of mammoth meat, but chose it to get people talking about the possibilities of lab-grown meat. Lab-grown meat is seen as a potential solution to cut back on methane emissions and combat climate change. More than 75 companies around the world are working on developing lab-grown meat products.
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