"Food firm unveils giant meatball made with extinct mammoth DNA"

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Source: Al Jazeera English
"Food firm unveils giant meatball made with extinct mammoth DNA"
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Australian cultured meat company Vow has unveiled a giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth at a science museum in the Netherlands. The meatball was made of sheep cells inserted with a singular mammoth gene called myoglobin, and African elephant DNA was inserted to complete it. Vow said it wanted to get people talking about cultured meat, calling it a more sustainable alternative to real meat. The meatball is currently not for consumption and will undergo rigorous testing.

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