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STORY: This meatball is made using mammoth DNAVow, the company that made it, saysthis is not an April Fools' joke[LOCATION: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS]It has mammoth genes that are4,000 years old[JAMES RYALL, CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER, VOW]"We inserted the gene from the mammoth into these sheep cells and then over-expressed that gene really, really highly. So all that means is that we could detect the amount of traditional sheep myoglobin inside the cells and we could detect over 100 times more mammoth myoglobin in those cells themselves, so quite a significant portion of what you can see here in front of you today comes from mammoth."The mammoth DNA had gaps completedwith African elephant materialVow wants to get people talking about'cultured' meat like thisCultured meat as a food is not regulatedin the EU, which Vow wants to changeThey say lab-grown protein is a sustainablealternative to real meat[TIM NOAKESMITH, FOUNDER OF VOW]"We wanted to create something that was totally different from anything you can get now. The second reason is that the mammoth has traditionally been a symbol of loss. Mammoths we know now were wiped out because of climate change and we wanted to draw attention to a different future, something more exciting, something where we can eat our way out of extinction."Vow says the ball must go through rigorous testsbefore they say it's okay to eat
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