Australian scientists recreate mammoth meat and make a meatball out of it (7 photos + 1 video)

Australian company makes 'prehistoric' meatball from reconstituted mammoth meat. The meat was obtained from the available DNA. This - another proof of what biotechnology is capable of.





Specialists from an Australian manufacturing company artificial meat Vow in the laboratory recreated meat woolly mammoth from available DNA from mammoth muscle protein. Also used the DNA of an elephant - the closest living relative of this species. IN As a result, mammoth meat was grown from as many as 20 billion cells. Then the meat turned it into minced meat, and made a "prehistoric" meatball out of it. The result was a unique product created from cells of non-traditional species. Although scientists believe that meat is certainly tasty, they are afraid to eat it in food, fearing that the ancient squirrel will be deadly.



"This squirrel is thousands of years old. So we have no idea how our immune system will react when we eat it. However, if we started growing meat again, we would take into account some features and would make it softer for our digestion," said Professor Ernst Volvetang, project participant.





The process of growing mammoth meat took a couple of weeks. By According to scientists, it was originally planned to recreate the meat of the dodo, however, no suitable DNA sequence was found for this. They decided arrange such a project, touching on the topics of loss important for our planet species diversity and climate change. But the main goal of the company is demonstrate the potential of biotechnology and artificial meat in as an alternative to animal slaughter. According to Vow, large-scale slaughter of animals is one of the causes of global warming.



According to experts, the impact of production cultured meat on the environment will be significantly lower than in traditional meat production. When growing artificial meat, in addition, approximately 7-45 percent fewer resources are used. IN the world has not yet developed the production of such meat, but some companies such as Good Meat and Upside Foods are already approved in the US. Good Meat farmed chicken is also sold in shops in Singapore.