Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

A mammoth meatball hints at a future of exotic lab-grown meats, but the reality will be far more boring, and rife with problems

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Hallam Stevens, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University

Last week, an Australian “cultured meat” company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a woolly mammoth – or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and “de-extinction,” Vow scientists grew muscle proteins based on DNA sequences from the long-dead proboscideans.

The meatball…

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