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  2. Feather meal - Wikipedia

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    Feather meal or Feather powder, is a byproduct of processing poultry; it is made from poultry feathers by partially grinding them under elevated heat and pressure, and then grinding and drying. Although total nitrogen levels are fairly high (up to 12%), the bioavailability of this nitrogen may be low.

  3. Scientists Are Using Chicken Feathers to Build Better ... - AOL

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    Scientists estimate that it takes 100 grams of feathers to create one square meter of membrane that’s roughly the thickness of a human hair, and this already makes these keratin-infused ...

  4. Chicken as biological research model - Wikipedia

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    The chicken embryo is a unique model that overcomes many limitations to studying the biology of cancer in vivo. The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), a well-vascularized extra-embryonic tissue located underneath the eggshell, has a successful history as a biological platform for the molecular analysis of cancer including viral oncogenesis, [8] carcinogenesis, [9] tumor xenografting, [1] [10] [11 ...

  5. Poultry litter - Wikipedia

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    In agriculture, poultry litter or broiler litter is a mixture of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations. This term is also used to refer to unused bedding materials. Poultry litter is used in confinement buildings used for raising broilers, turkeys and other birds.

  6. EXPLAINER: Chicken made from cells in a lab; what it is and ...

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    The United Stated Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, June 21 permitted two California firms to sell the products, known as The post EXPLAINER: Chicken made from cells in a lab; what it is and ...

  7. Human uses of birds - Wikipedia

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    Feathers are used to make warm and soft bedding, including eiderdowns from the belly down of the eider duck, and winter clothing as they have high "loft", trapping a large amount of air for their weight. [21] Feathers were used also for quill pens, [22] for fletching arrows, [23] and to decorate fishing lures. [24]

  8. Second lab-grown chicken product cleared for human ... - AOL

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    GOOD Meat's chicken is the second cultivated meat product to receive a "no-questions" letter from the FDA after California-based UPSIDE Foods got the regulator's green light for its cultivated ...

  9. Model organism - Wikipedia

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    However complex human diseases can often be better understood in a simplified system in which individual parts of the disease process are isolated and examined. For instance, behavioral analogues of anxiety or pain in laboratory animals can be used to screen and test new drugs for the treatment of these conditions in humans. A 2000 study found ...