We may soon be able to include woolly mammoth meatballs in our giant bowls of spaghetti
, Vow’s goal is to use technology to dream up new kinds of lab-grown meat that replace livestock farming. It,writes, “aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without the slaughter of animals, and to highlight the link between large-scale livestock production and the destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis.
” While working with Professor Ernst Wolvetang at the University Of Queensland’s Australian Institute For Bioengineering, Vow used “the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein in giving meat its flavor, and filled in the few gaps using elephant DNA.” Myoblast stem cells from sheep were then combined with the mammoth/elephant DNA sequence to grow the meatball.
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