The melanin in human skin could one day be used to create bionic implants, thanks to a special process harnessed by scientists in a landmark new study. Dark brown melanin in skin has long been known ...

Some animal species have developed conspicuous traits produced by melanin pigments (for instance, dark manes in lions, black stripes in some birds and fishes). These traits are used as signals during ...

A laboratory method that mimics how melanin is made in the skin yields pigments in a wide range of brilliant colours. Just one pigment — melanin — serves as the basis for the diversity of hair, skin ...

Melanin is the universal pigment that colors our skin and hair, peacock feathers, and butterfly wings. But for Neri Oxman, the head of MIT’s Mediated Matter research group, melanin isn’t just “the ...

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 ...

To understand the biological underpinnings of skin and hair pigmentation and related diseases such as albinism or melanoma, scientists and doctors need quantitative, three-dimensional information ...

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 ...