You might need a lot of spaghetti to pair with the meatball recently created by Vow, an Australia cultivated meat company.
Vow resurrected the flesh of a long-extinct woolly mammoth to create the meatball, which they say is to demonstrate and draw attention to the potential of cultured meat to make eating habits more "planet friendly."
James Ryall, Vow's chief scientific officer, said in a statement per CNN, "We need to start rethinking how we get our food. My biggest hope for this project is … that a lot more people across the world begin to hear about cultured meat."
And before you dig in, know this meatball wasn't created for human consumption, and it isn't even 100% woolly mammoth.
Scientists didn't have access to a whole ton of frozen mammoth tissue, so they directed their focus on a protein present in mammals called myoglobin that gives meat its texture, color and taste.
They identified the DNA sequence for the mammoth version in a publicly available genome database, and filled in the gaps of the DNA sequence with the genome of an African elephant.
The meatball currently resides in a collection at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, a museum of science and medicine in the Netherlands.
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