Since all he is doing is implanting part of a quails brain into a chicken brain, how does he get the vocal cords to change or different feathers to grow? Sounds phony to me, could be he is doing what that Korean guy did, making phony evidence to get his name in the books.
First, birds don't have vocal cords. Mammals have vocal cords. Second, it seems the 'scientist' is pulling some embryonic cells from the brain region of quail embryos and injecting them into the developing brains of chicken embryos. THe quail feathers come from skin tissue embryo cells contaminating the sampling of the brain embryos. And I never thought I'd ever write a sentence describing the vivisection and fusion of embryo brains!
From the article:
They sprout black and brown quail-coloured feathers because the transplant includes cells that determine the skin and feather pigmentation.
After the surgery, the chickens hatch and grow for two weeks before their bodies reject the quail cells.
Sounds phony to me, could be he is doing what that Korean guy did, making phony evidence to get his name in the books.
I await replication in other labs.