Australian food startup creates mammoth DNA meatballs.

Australian startup Vow has created a meatball made with a tiny amount of mammoth DNA, as a publicity stunt to draw attention to the potential of cultured meat to make eating habits more planet-friendly. The meatballs are not intended for human consumption, and are more like lab-made lamb mingled with mammoth DNA. The scientists used a protein present in mammals called myoglobin to identify the DNA sequence for the mammoth version in a publicly available genome database. The team was eventually able to produce about 400 grams of mammoth meat.