Sarah Tishkoff Of the University of Pennsylvania led a collaborative team of researchers who have discovered key insights into the molecular basis of skin color differences among Africans. “There’s so ...

When a baby is born, they may have red, purple, yellow, or blue skin. Skin color variations in babies do not usually signify an underlying condition, but some skin colors in babies can be the result ...

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 ...

The common assumption that direct and prolonged exposure to sunlight, prevalent in desert regions, would naturally result in darker skin tones does not always hold true The key to understanding skin ...

Since its introduction more than ten years ago, CRISPR technology has been used in a remarkable range of applications from biomedicine to food production. Now, a team of scientists from Stanford ...

My previous blog post ("Vitamin D Is Essential for Human Reproduction") discussed the “sunshine vitamin” and emphasized the impacts of deficiency on reproductive health. But this topic is too big for ...