The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

A group of women of different ages and races. Source: Unsplash Melanin is the major determinant of skin colour and is also responsible for absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation to protect the skin’s ...

How is melanin pigment formed? Protein that converts DNA into RNA present in the cells of our body plays a precise role in melanin production. The skin is presumably the largest and one of the most ...

The genetic covariation among different traits may cause the appearance of correlated response to selection on multivariate phenotypes. Genes responsible for the expression of melanin-based color ...

Maria McNamara receives funding from the European Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland. She works for University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Tiffany Slater is affiliated with University ...

Melanin is to the animal kingdom like chlorophyll to the vegetal kingdom(1). Melanin collects energy from lower-energy radiation sources, kicks electrons into excited states, initiating a process that ...

Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made -- that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein ...

Imagine a skin cream that heals damage occurring throughout the day when your skin is exposed to sunlight or environmental toxins. That's the potential of a synthetic, biomimetic melanin developed by ...

1. Female preferences for particular male ornaments may shift between populations as a consequence of ecological differences that change the reliability and detectability of the ornament, but few ...