A bitter feud has erupted over who first resurrected the woolly mammoth as a meatball. The de-extinct delicacy was unveiled last week at Nemo Science Museum in the Netherlands. Naturally, no mammoths were harmed in the making of the product. Inlieu of dead flesh, an Australian startupcalled Vow produced the meatball from DNA. First, the team identified the DNA sequence for mammoth myoglobin, a protein that creates a meaty taste. To fill in some gaps in the sequence, they added genetic data from the African elephant the pachyderms closest living relative. Using a low-current and high-voltage charge, they…
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