Chicken in Biological News

Biodiesel on the wing: A 'green' process for biodiesel from feather meal

... Kondamudi, and Jason Strull note that chicken feather meal consists of processed chicken feathers, blood, and innards that have been ... describe a new process for extracting fat from chicken feather meal using boiling water and processing ...

Fowl soil additive breaks down crude oil

... but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in ... and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil ... suggest that animal waste, and in particular chicken manure, may provide the necessary chemical and ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 7, 2009

... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clothing to crow about: chicken feather suits and dresses Biomacromolecules ... you may snuggle up in warm, cozy sweats made of chicken feathers or jeans made of wheat, enjoying ... agricultural proteins, such as keratin from scrap chicken feathers and gluten from wheat, they say. The ...

Research consortium to sequence turkey genome

... The assembled genome will be compared with the chicken genome sequence to examine similarities and ... as it relates to determining the function of the chicken genome sequence, will also be facilitated by the ... compare the genetic map of turkey genome with the chicken whole genome sequence. This effort will not only ...

'Arid aquaculture' among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world's drylands

... SUMAMAD worked with several families to test chicken farming as an alternative. The project produced economic returns per hectare for chicken farming nine times higher than for cattle and ... industry To support the marketing of chicken and eggs, a company was set up in the area and ...

OSA's ISP launches with research on breathing disorders and congenital heart defects

... potentially study this process using fertilized chicken eggs, observing as the chicken embryo forms. In the earliest days of the heart's ... the structure of the heart in a developing chicken embryo. They have combined two optical techniques ...

Wasps and bumble bees heat up, fly faster with protein-rich food

... the Big Island of Hawaii and set plates of canned chicken 20 meters away from the centers of their nests. ... a very high-protein source, such as pure chicken meat, their thoracic temperatures are ... who were kept from the bait by a mesh dome. chicken mixed with an equal volume of nutritionless ...

Darwin was wrong about the wild origin of the chicken

... Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken derives from the red jungle fowl, but new ... University now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated than that. The ... to the development of the dog, but that the chicken came from only one wild species, the red jungle ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 16, 2008

... and Food Chemistry Batches of homemade chicken soup fondly known as Grandmas Penicillin will ... effects. The scientists prepared batches of chicken broth with and without a volatile extract from ... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flavor Enhancement of chicken Broth from Boiled Celery Constituents DOWNLOAD ...

Childhood chicken pox could affect oral health years later

... 18, 2009) - You may recall as a child catching the itchy red rash, chicken pox. The unsightly infection was caused by the varicella zoster virus and ... that number by 83 percent. Yet, if you were among those that suffered from chicken pox, the varicella zoster virus may still be present in your body and ...

Chicks to give scientists clearer picture of fetal development

... and resources recently made available from the sequencing of the mouse and chicken genomes. In particular, it will build on the pioneering Edinburgh Mouse ... will look at mapping 1,000 of around 18,000 chick genes predicted from the chicken genome sequence. By cross referencing similarities with the mouse atlas, ...

Egg whites solve the 3-D problem

... Kaipparettu, a postdoctoral associate in her laboratory, found a solution chicken egg whites. Their process has garnered attention in other laboratories ... and Kaipparettu in cooperation with others in their laboratory found that chicken eggs whites enabled them to grow both normal and tumors cells in ...

Duck-billed platypus genome sequence published

... as well as the draft genome sequence of the green anole lizard. The chicken genome was chosen because it is descended from the ancestral group of ... of smell is something mammals have in common. Compared to most mammals, chicken and lizard have a relatively poor complement of odorant receptor genes ...

Medical College researchers find dinosaur clues in fat

... The researchers found they could induce a specific type of stem cell in chicken embryos to produce differentiated cells that are structured and behave like brown fat. These chicken cells can even activate a UCP1 gene if presented with one from a mouse. ...

Poultry workers at increased risk of carrying antibiotic-resistant E. coli

... bacteria, such as E. coli, are common in the industrial broiler chicken environment, this is the first U.S. research to show exposure occurring at ... and Virginia regions on the Delmarva Peninsula are among the top broiler chicken producing regions in the U.S., producing more than 600 million chickens ...

Rosemary chicken protects your brain from free radicals

... Rosemary not only tastes good in culinary dishes such as Rosemary chicken and lamb, but scientists have now found it is also good for your brain. A ... increased benefits over rosemary itself. This is not to say that Rosemary chicken is not good for you, said Dr. Satoh, but it means that we can do even ...

Pitt researchers find promising candidate protein for cancer prevention vaccines

... the immune response most likely developed during a childhood viral infection, when inflammatory responses are strong. Cells infected with chicken pox virus, for example, look very much like tumor cells because they, too, overproduce cyclin B1. The virus actually packages the host protein, which ...

Clinical trials for shingles drug take an important step forward

... potential to improve the lives of over 2.5 million herpes zoster patients worldwide. Shingles is caused by the same viral infection that causes chicken pox. It is estimated that around one in five people in the U.S., Europe and Japan will be affected by the debilitating condition during their ...

Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth

... of pure carbon that measure about one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter, in diameter. In molecular diagrams, they look like rolled-up sheets of chicken wire. And just like a roll of wire or gift-wrapping paper, nanotubes can be rolled at an odd angle with excess hanging off the end. Though ...

Defectors take the car, cooperators go by bus

... costs) of personal transport. Szilagyi points out that the simulation reveals some of the characteristics of the well-known "game theory" game chicken Dilemma. "The simulation shows that it is quite possible to achieve a situation when the majority of people prefer mass transportation," he says, ...

Tracking poultry litter phosphorus: Threat of accumulation?

... Peninsula, flanking the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is home to some 600 million chickens. The resulting poultry manure and some of the chicken house bedding material is usually composted and then spread onto croplands as a fertilizer. Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P NMR) ...

Avian flu becoming more resistant to antiviral drugs, says University of Colorado study

... to adamantanes -- which include the nonprescription drugs amantadine and rimantadane -- appears to be linked to Chinese farmers adding the drugs to chicken feed as a flu preventative, according to a 2008 paper by researchers from China Agricultural University, said Hill. In contrast, resistance of the ...

ETH Zurich study on salmonella self-destruction

... Diseases caused by salmonellae are very unpleasant and even life-threatening. When contaminated food is consumed for example, egg-based foods or chicken and meat salmonella bacteria enter the gastro-intestinal tract where it triggers infection. Vomiting and diarrhoea can last for days. Normally, ...

Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice

... Stuffing the trunks into the linked hexagonal rings that make up the nanotubes created a visual effect that Dai described as looking like rolled-up chicken wire with feathers sticking out all over. The homespun sounding appearance notwithstanding, the nanotubes proved to be highly effective delivery ...

Drinking water in Gaza Strip contaminated with high levels of nitrate

... the inhabitants of this area between the Mediterranean, Egypt and Israel are reliant on being self-sufficient. The fields are mostly fertilized with chicken and cow dung. Artificial fertilizers account for only around a quarter of the fertilizer used. Because of the area's geology and the semi-arid ...

Do birds have a good sense of smell?

... genes were functional, again indicating that the sense of smell is much more important in birds than previously thought. From the analysis of the chicken genome three years ago a new class of OR genes was found. Now Silke Steiger and her colleagues have shown that this class of genes seems to be a ...

BioScience tip sheet July/August 2008

... An increasingly broad range of genomics techniques is being applied to birds, thus expanding what has been learned from studies based on the chicken and shedding new light on the ecology and evolution of the whole class. *************** Penguins as Marine Sentinels. P. Dee Boersma. The ...

Study finds healthy intestinal bacteria within chicken eggs

... in Boston, could have important implications for the poultry industry and for food safety. "Understanding the microbial ecology of the developing chicken is the first step toward producing healthy birds without antibiotics," said Pedroso, a post-doctoral researcher in the UGA College of Veterinary ...

Origin of cells for connective tissues of skull and face challenged

... able to see clearly that these cells came from the non-neural layer of cells rather than from the neural crest. The same distinction also exists in chicken embryos during the first few days of gestation, Weston noted. "Looking at the right time is very important," he said. Weston argues that this ...

Study identifies trends of vitamin B6 status in US population sample

... to iron deficiency anemia. Vitamin B6 is widely distributed in the American diet, and baked potatoes, bananas, 100 percent fortified cereals and chicken are particularly good sources. Morris says, "The question our study raises is whether, due to aging, genetics, or exposures, some population ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 30, 2008

... whereas transportation accounts for only 11 percent. Red meat, according to the report, is almost 150 percent more greenhouse-gas-intensive than chicken or fish. Thus, we suggest that dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average households food-related climate footprint than ...

Wisconsin researchers describe how digits grow

... malformations of phalanges, such as those seen in certain types of bradydactyly in humans. "The molecular mechanisms controlling the formation of chicken and mammalian limbs, including those of humans, are similar," says Fallon. "We can learn a great deal about the causes of human malformations from ...

Study shows Darwin was wrong about the origins of chickens

... has revealed why chickens have yellow legs, demonstrating that though Charles Darwin was right about many things, his view on the origins of the chicken was not entirely correct. The study, published February 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, reveals the genetic basis for the appearance of ...

Research leading to tools for managing bovine respiratory disease complex

... to get sick. But bovine respiratory disease complex has so many variables that this isn't easy. "It's not a simple, contagious infection like the chicken pox," Renter said. Instead, bovine respiratory disease complex is caused by multiple pathogens, both viruses and bacteria, that are commonly found ...

Learning from cod collapse to save tuna

... RD Fishing Corporation, and Jose Ingles from WWF. Just as cod was once perceived as Canadas Newfoundland currency, tuna is largely considered the chicken of the seacheap and plentiful. Where the landed value of cod in Atlantic Canada was at its peak of $1.4 billion in 1968, it dropped to just $10 ...

New decontamination system kills anthrax rapidly without lingering effects

... application is to kill viruses in buildings used to house chickens. Current methods involve removing the chickens and raising the temperature in the chicken houses for several days to deactivate the virus. With the combined UV-C/X-ray system, you could turn the system on for a few hours, kill the ...

New book reveals an evolutionary journey of the human body

... to the DNA in virtually every animal alive on earth today. While a graduate student at Harvard University, Shubin realized that fish, frog and chicken embryos looked alike and that there is a common architecture within all of them. For example, a fish and a human look identical for weeks after ...

Karen Beemon wins the 2007 Retrovirology Prize

... Prize. It is wonderful to be recognized by the Retrovirology community. It is gratifying that this prize was awarded for basic research with chicken retroviruses. I became fascinated with these viruses as a graduate student and have studied them ever since. I am amazed at how complex and elegant ...

Evolutionary comparison finds new human genes

... ran three different algorithms, or computing designs -- one of which Siepel created -- to compare these alignments between human, mouse, rat and chicken in various combinations. Over millions of years, individual bases can be swapped -- C to G, T to A, for example -- by damage or miscopying. Changes ...

Which came first, the chicken genome or the egg genome?

... Which came first, the chicken genome or the egg genome? Researchers have answered a similarly vexing (and far more relevant) genomic question: Which of the thousands of long ...