Under the Radar: Mammoth meatballs - Vow on why firms are eyeing a slice of the extinct-DNA pie; Possible commercialisation of Mammoth meatballs; Patents and its impact on the cultured meat industry; Possible launch of cultivated quail meat in Singapore in 2H2023

Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong · May 8, 2023 · 16m

Meatballs! That’s what we are going to talk about today. When it comes to meatballs, the first thing that comes to mind would be perhaps chicken meat balls, or those made from beef, pork, or even lamb, served in soup or with a scoop of delectable sauce. But how about a giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of the extinct woolly mammoth? Well, that’s exactly what Australian cultured meat company Vow launched in The Netherlands in late March. It said the meatball was made of sheep cells inserted with a singular mammoth gene called myoglobin. According to the company, the gene…