TECH DESK
A Mammoth Mammoth Meatball
This very large meatball isn’t made of beef or pork, or even turkey. It’s mammoth meat.
Engineers at an Australian company created the unique meatball in a lab. The company grows meat from cells. In the future, this may be a way of creating foods like burgers and bacon without having to raise or kill any animals.
To make the mammoth meat, the engineers started with sheep cells. They added the DNA of an extinct wooly mammoth. cells), the team made the cells into a ball and cooked it.