The mammoth meatball, for those curious, wasn’t a total clone. It was made from sheep cells, but it had certain mammoth genes added to include unique forms of proteins. It’s impossible to say how closely this really resembles the taste and texture of mammoth, but the fact that it was fully lab-grown meat is probably more significant to begin with, and the added mammoth factor just gets it a bit more attention.
(Of course, if we can ever find any extinct genes that are much more unique than mammoth myoglobin, those techniques will come in handy)
The mammoth meatball, for those curious, wasn’t a total clone. It was made from sheep cells, but it had certain mammoth genes added to include unique forms of proteins. It’s impossible to say how closely this really resembles the taste and texture of mammoth, but the fact that it was fully lab-grown meat is probably more significant to begin with, and the added mammoth factor just gets it a bit more attention.
(Of course, if we can ever find any extinct genes that are much more unique than mammoth myoglobin, those techniques will come in handy)