A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Scientists found that colour production in birds is not just cosmetic but may be part of the body's internal defence system.

In a recent study published in Progress in Neurobiology, researchers discover that the substantia nigra of individuals with Parkinson’s disease had a higher concentration of pheomelanin, as well as ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells. Pheomelanin is an orange-to-red ...

Biologists examined the survival rates and chestnut feather coloration of barn swallows and other species of birds, to unearth factors favoring the evolution of pheomelanin in spite of its costs. They ...

A novel method developed by two scholars of Bharathiar University to obtain pheomelanin from a bacterium, streptomyces spinoverrucosus, has been granted patent recently.Pheomelanin is one of the three ...

Many Irish men who are not redheads still grow red or reddish beards, a phenomenon known as "gingerbeard" that affects almost two in five men. Experts say it comes down to how genes control two ...

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 ...