{"id":46374,"date":"2023-03-28T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=46374"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:36:13","slug":"scientists-create-meatball-from-dna-of-extinct-woolly-mammoth-but-are-afraid-to-eat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2023\/03\/28\/scientists-create-meatball-from-dna-of-extinct-woolly-mammoth-but-are-afraid-to-eat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create meatball from DNA of extinct woolly mammoth, but are afraid to eat it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AdobeStock_288145154.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>AUSTRALIA (WTVO) \u2014 A company in Australia has created a mammoth meatball using cells from the long-extinct animal, according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/mar\/28\/meatball-mammoth-created-cultivated-meat-firm\" data-type=\"url\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/mar\/28\/meatball-mammoth-created-cultivated-meat-firm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company, Vox, which cultivates cells from biopsies of unconventional animals to create cultured meat, says its goal is to \u201ctransition a few billion meat eaters away from eating [conventional] animal protein\u201d by inventing meat.<\/p>\n<p>Vox said it wants to grow cultivated meat from cells without the slaughtering of animals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose the&nbsp;woolly mammoth&nbsp;because it\u2019s a symbol of&nbsp;diversity loss&nbsp;and a symbol of climate change,\u201d said Vox co-founder Tim Noakesmith.<\/p>\n<p>The company used the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a muscle protein, and then filled in the missing genetic links with elephant DNA.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the company has investigated the potential of 50 exotic species to invent the perfect protein.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>However, the scientists who created the meatball said they\u2019re reluctant to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen this protein for thousands of years,\u201d said professor Ernst Wolvetang from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland, who collaborated on the project. \u201cSo we have no idea how our immune system would react when we eat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singapore is the only country that allows lab-grown meats to be legally sold, but the US Food and Drug Administration recently declared lab-grown chicken as \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystateline.com\/news\/fda-approves-lab-grown-chicken-meat-for-sale-in-u-s\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mystateline.com\/news\/fda-approves-lab-grown-chicken-meat-for-sale-in-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">safe to eat.<\/a><\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTRALIA (WTVO) \u2014 A company in Australia has created a mammoth meatball using cells from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46377,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374\/revisions\/46377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}