Post by gato on Mar 28, 2023 7:06:17 GMT -5
We've all heard of restaurants featuring meat from game animals, as well as from unusual species. But that is soo-ooooo yesterday.
Anybody up for spaghetti and mammoth meatballs? By that, I mean using meat from the long extinct mammal.
A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals.
The mammoth meatball was produced by Vow, an Australian company, which is taking a different approach to cultured meat.
The company has already investigated the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, and different types of fish.
The team took the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein in giving meat its flavor, and filled in the few gaps using elephant DNA.
This sequence was placed in myoblast stem cells from a sheep, which replicated to grow to the 20bn cells subsequently used by the company to grow the mammoth meat.
The mammoth meatball will be unveiled on Tuesday, March 28, at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.
The company expects to produce cultured meat that is a blend of tissue from multiple animal types mixed together.
Think ......one of those complex Starbucks coffee concoctions, but with meat: "I'll have a kangaroo-alpaca-octopus burger with buffalo sprinkles. Hold the sea slugs.
The Guardian newspaper
Anybody up for spaghetti and mammoth meatballs? By that, I mean using meat from the long extinct mammal.
A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals.
The mammoth meatball was produced by Vow, an Australian company, which is taking a different approach to cultured meat.
The company has already investigated the potential of more than 50 species, including alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo, and different types of fish.
The team took the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a key muscle protein in giving meat its flavor, and filled in the few gaps using elephant DNA.
This sequence was placed in myoblast stem cells from a sheep, which replicated to grow to the 20bn cells subsequently used by the company to grow the mammoth meat.
The mammoth meatball will be unveiled on Tuesday, March 28, at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands.
The company expects to produce cultured meat that is a blend of tissue from multiple animal types mixed together.
Think ......one of those complex Starbucks coffee concoctions, but with meat: "I'll have a kangaroo-alpaca-octopus burger with buffalo sprinkles. Hold the sea slugs.
The Guardian newspaper
