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A team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability ...
Inhibiting the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway strongly perturbs feather development in chickens by restricting feather bud outgrowth, invagination and ...
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