Your skin color is determined by a pigment called melanin. Special cells in your skin called melanocytes create melanin, which gives your skin its color. How much melanin you have, as well as the type ...

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 ...

Melanin is the pigment that is responsible for our beautiful variety of skin tones and shades, eye colors, and hair colors. However, when we discuss melanin, that discussion rarely includes its actual ...

Mysterious white patches first appeared around Adriana Birleanu’s eyes when she was 16, and then quickly spread around her lips, forehead, hands, elbows, knees, and feet. Mortified, Birleanu shied ...

Tishkoff’s discoveries also complicate a long-held theory among researchers that skin pigmentation is an evolutionary result of exposure to sunlight. The new research would mean that darker-skinned ...

Melanin is the natural molecule in animals' skin, hair and the iris of eyes that gives them color and helps protect them from ultraviolet light. Someday soon, the pigment could be found in unexpected ...