Boire & Frères, a leader in the North American poultry industry with 160 barns across 59 sites, was one of the first hatcheries to adopt TARGAN’s WingScan, the industry’s first fully automated feather ...

A civil society organisation, The Advocacy for Alleged Witches, yesterday raised concern over the rising tide of money rituals, and other ritual-related violence in the country.

Once voted the UK's favorite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary—150 miles through an officially recognized "national landscape." But this idyllic picture is ...

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is part of a broader effort to understand how and why feathers evolved.

Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing chicken embryos to grow simple, ancient-style feathers that look startlingly similar to those of their dinosaur ...

but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the genetics of feather formation by experimenting on chicken embryos. By manipulating a key signaling pathway, they’ve recreated structures ...

In a previous study, the team activated the Shh pathway in chicken embryos and turned foot scales into feathers—permanently. This showed that small changes in early development can lead to big ...

Alteration of the expression of the co-called 'Sonic Hedgehog' gene can transform feet scale and wing feathers. While a transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into ...

originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE ...

eventually producing chickens with normal plumage. "Our experiments show that while a transient disturbance in the development of foot scales can permanently turn them into feathers, it is much ...