"Mammoth DNA used to create lab-grown meatball, but it's not for consumption"
Australian-based cultivated meat firm Vow unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, which was displayed at the NEMO science museum in Amsterdam. However, the thousands-of-years-old protein requires safety testing before modern humans can consume it. The meat was cultivated by scientists who identified the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key protein that gives the meat its flavor. The mammoth meatball's display of the link between climate change and future foods comes as global meat consumption has almost doubled since the early 1960s, and scientists have increasingly been turning to alternatives such as plant-based meats and lab-grown meat.