Africa-Press – Namibia. Vow, an Australian biotech company that specializes in in vitro meat production, introduced meatballs with the protein of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). The company believes that its activities will contribute to the conservation of nature’s biodiversity.
Employees of the startup together with researchers from the University of Queensland took information from public genetic databases about the mammoth DNA sequence, which is responsible for the production of the muscle protein myoglobin, which is largely responsible for the taste of meat.
The missing fragm A mammoth meatball was presented to the public at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands. The entire process took about two weeks. However, no one knows yet what mammoth meatballs taste like.
Don’t expect to be adding Mammoth meatballs to your spaghetti anytime soon, Vow says the project was a one-off. Still, the company plans to put it through rigorous tests, just like the company says it does for products it does plan to bring to market.
According to the Vow staff, the main goal of their project is not to mass-produce food with proteins from extinct animals, but to draw attention to the cultivation of meat in the laboratory.
As part of its research, Vow, unlike a number of other companies of a similar profile, prefers to cultivate meat of unconventional animal species, such as alpaca, buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo and peacocks.
It is believed that unlike traditional animal breeding, this approach to meat production is more ethical, causes less damage to the climate and the environment and as Vow’s developments demonstrate, allows the creation of meat from exotic species with specified characteristics.
This year, the company is preparing to start supplying cultured Japanese quail meat to restaurants in Singapore, the only country that currently allows the sale of cultured meat.
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