(Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) No, dark skin color won’t protect you against coronavirus or the disease it causes, COVID-19. What is melanin? Melanin is a natural pigment that gives ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, medical science has operated under the assumption that people with darker skin simply need more sun exposure to produce adequate vitamin D. This oversimplified understanding has led to ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a severe genetic disorder primarily caused by mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 genes, which encode polycystins 1 and 2, affecting over 12 million ...