By tweaking a specific gene, scientists have discovered a way to permanently transform the scales on a chicken's feet into feathers. The results provide new insight into the bird's evolutionary ...
Birds show an amazing diversity in plumage color and patterning. But what are the genetic mechanisms creating such patterns? Researchers now report that two independent mutations are required to ...
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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 ...
If you took a careful look at the feathers on a chicken, you'd find many different forms within the same bird -- even within a single feather. The diversity of feather shapes and functions expands ...
The researchers tested their feather-based membrane by assembling it in a commercial fuel cell setup - NTU Singapore/ETH Zurich The researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU ...
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