They make a giant meatball and that’s just the beginning

An Australian company could change the way we eat forever as Vow created the world’s first meatball. extinct mammoth edible.

The project aims to demonstrate the potential of cell-raised meat without slaughtering animals and highlight the link between large-scale animal husbandry and wildlife destruction and the climate crisis, according to a Guardian article.

The company has already explored the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, peacock and various fish species.

George Peppu, CEO of Vow, says the goal is to get several billion meat eaters to give up animal protein. [convencional] there is something that can be produced in electrified systems. And we think the best way to do that is to invent meat. We’re looking for cells that are easy to grow, really tasty and nutritious, and then we mix and match those cells to create really tasty meat.”

Wow worked with Professor Ernst Wolvetang of the Australian Institute of Bioengineering at the University of Queensland to create the giant muscle protein. His team took the DNA sequence of mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein in meat flavoring, and filled in a few gaps using elephant DNA.

This sequence was inserted into sheep myoblast stem cells, which replicated to grow into 20 billion cells, which were later used by the company to grow mammoth meat.

“It was ridiculously easy and fast,” Volvetang said. “We did it in a couple of weeks.” According to him, the original idea was to produce dodo meat, but the necessary DNA sequences do not exist.

No one has tried mammoth meatball yet. “We haven’t seen this squirrel in thousands of years,” Wolvetang said. “So we have no idea how our immune system will react when we eat it. But if we did it again, we certainly could do it in a way that would make it more palatable to regulators.”

Tim Noakesmith, co-founder of Vow with Peppu, said: “We chose the woolly mammoth because it is a symbol of loss of diversity and a symbol of climate change.” It is believed that this creature became extinct due to the fact that people hunted it and warmed the world after the last ice age.