"The broiler chicken, Bennett says, is now a symbol of how the biosphere is unrecognizable from its pre-human state. Chickens have become the most numerous terrestrial vertebrate species on the ...

By grafting petri dish-grown human cells onto the embryo of a chicken the scientists were able to observe how cells organise themselves. The scientific first was published this week in the ...

In fact, the recently deciphered chicken genome should prove a valuable tool for learning about the human version, researchers say in their first detailed analysis of it. The work is presented by ...