One of the traits that we usually use to physically describe people is their hair color. Hair is a useful descriptor because it varies so much among us. Melanin is the molecule responsible for the ...

Université de Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université de Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. One of the traits that we usually ...

In October 2019, Jordan Janz became the first person in the world to receive an experimental therapy for cystinosis, a rare genetic disease. The treatment was physically grueling. Doctors extracted ...

A girl in England has a special genetic trait: Her hair can change from blond to brunette based on how she styles it. The girl, identified as Bella, lives in Lincoln, England. Tyla reported that Bella ...

Diversity of skin and hair color in humans is controlled by the levels at which a major albinism gene, OCA2, undergoes exon skipping – according to new research (IMAGE) ...

Human skin, hair, and eyes come in a huge variety of colors, but until now, scientists have only known a fraction of the genetic diversity driving this variation. Now, new research finds many dozens ...

Five human hands on brown surface. Funding: Genespoir, the French albinism association to SJ; the French National Research Agency / Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-CE17-0041-01 to BA); the ...