VIDEO: Researchers aim to turn bird feathers into food

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Published: October 25, 2017

Reuters – Biotechnologists have identified and refined a micro-organism that can convert bird feathers and other forms of organic waste into food products and cosmetics, as Jim Drury reports.

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