In addition to contributing "to the diversity of the human appearance with varying skin, hair and eye colors," Portela says, melanin serves other important functions.

Skin color, like the levels of sun itself, changed with the seasons and skin quickly showed its age. This is still the case for people who live traditional, mostly outdoor, lives in many parts of ...

Previous studies had revealed some genes behind melanocyte maturation and melanin production, but only enough to explain between 23% and 35% of the variation in human skin color, Wysocka and her ...

Melanin is a natural pigment that determines the color of human skin, hair and eyes. Humans produce it with specialized cells called melanocytes and its concentration directly impacts skin tone ...

Whenever you look at yourself in the mirror and your face looks a little dull, your complexion doesn't look as glowing as before, this feeling often makes you restless. Then you remember that you ...

The rich diversity of human skin tones is determined by the quantity, type, and distribution of melanin pigment present in the individual. In the past, scientists have done genome-wide association ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...