A mammoth meatball hints at a future of exotic lab-grown meats, but the reality will be far more boring, and rife with problems
- Written by: Hallam Stevens, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University
Mike Corder / APLast week, an Australian “cultured meat” company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a woolly mammoth – or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and “de-extinction,” Vow scientists grew muscle proteins based on DNA sequences from...