When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make ...
GENEVA — From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather. Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing chicken ...
The growth of long facial feathers, creating the appearance of muffs and beards on chickens, is caused by a chromosomal rearrangement affecting a gene involved in feather development, researchers ...
A researcher in Thailand is working to transform the protein found in chicken feathers into some kind of edible food. His work was inspired by the fact that chicken feathers are almost always thrown ...
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Chickens sprouted dino-like feathers when scientists messed with the Sonic Hedgehog gene
In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of simple tube-shaped proto-feathers that likely first emerged in the ...
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