News tagged with skin pigment
Chameleon-like camouflage: 'Nano-camo' for fashionistas and environmentalists
(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain fish species blend with their environment by changing color. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Skin color: Handy tool for teaching evolution
Variations in skin color provide one of the best examples of evolution by natural selection acting on the human body and should be used to teach evolution in schools, according to a Penn State anthropologist.
Feb 20, 2011 |
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Vitamin D levels have different effects on atherosclerosis in blacks and whites
Vitamin D is quickly becoming the "go-to" remedy for treating a wide range of illnesses, from osteoporosis to atherosclerosis. However, new evidence from a Wake Forest University School of Medicine study suggests that supplementing ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Birds' eye view is far more colorful than our own
The brilliant colors of birds have inspired poets and nature lovers, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Cambridge say these existing hues represent only a fraction of what birds are capable ...
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Molecular switch controls melanin production, may allow true sunless tanning
Discovery of a molecular switch that turns off the natural process of skin pigmentation may lead to a novel way of protecting the skin – activating the tanning process without exposure to cancer-causing UV radiation. ...
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Clinical trials of spray-on skin to start in US
(PhysOrg.com) -- Clinical trials comparing a spray-on skin product with skin grafts will start in the US in December. The trials, which are partly funded by a US army grant of $1.4 million, will last about a year and will ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Earning its stripes: Zebrafish model of human melanoma reveals new cancer gene
The latest clues suggesting potential new ways to treat melanoma come from an unlikely source: fish.
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Skin color clue to nicotine dependence
Higher concentrations of melanin -- the color pigment in skin and hair -- may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobacco-related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 08, 2009 |
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Lasers ID deadly skin cancer better than doctors
High-resolution images from a laser-based tool developed at Duke University could help doctors better diagnose melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, while potentially saving thousands of lives and millions of dollars ...
Feb 23, 2011 |
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More than skin deep, tanning product of sun's rays
People who remain pale and never tan can blame their distant ancestors for choosing to live in the northern reaches of the globe and those who easily achieve a deep tan can thank their ancestors for living in the subtropical ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Model predicts individual's vitamin D needs
Your skin tone and the amount of sunshine you receive--in addition to what foods you eat--all can influence the amount of vitamin D that your body has on hand for optimum health. In a preliminary and apparently first-of-its-kind ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found
(PhysOrg.com) -- While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Cellular laser microsurgery illuminates research in vertebrate biology
Using an ultrafast femtosecond laser, researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., were able to label, draw patterns on, and remove individual melanocytes cells from a species of frog tadpole (Xenopus) without damaging ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Ancestry attracts, but love is blind
People preferentially marry those with similar ancestry, but their decisions are not necessarily based on hair, eye or skin colour. Research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that M ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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