Blue sharks can change colour like chameleon, scientists find - Study finds skin colour of blue shark grows darker when it ...

New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces ...

Erin Carr’s doctoral adviser Steven Harris handed her bags of soil collected from the soil crust of a cold British Columbian ...

Currently, melanin is primarily sourced from squid ink, which is costly and requires the death of squids. Carr explained that ...

Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from ...

What is melanin? Melanin is a naturally occurring substance or pigment produced by special skin cells called melanocytes that are found in one's skin, hair follicles, eyes and other parts of the body.

Just because melanin appears across the animal kingdom, though, doesn’t make it simple to create it at a commercial scale.

Melanin and Medicine began in 2019 as a way for Black students at UCLA pursuing health care careers to support each other. But the club quickly expanded its mission – evolving into a nonprofit ...

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive method used to monitor changes in hemoglobin concentration and oxygen levels in the body. This technique involves passing near-infrared light ...

Crumbley explains the purpose of this work is to scale up a microorganism that has been established as a strong producer of melanin based on collaborator testing.