melanocytes

do you have freckles?

Freckles are small tan spots of melanin on the skin of people with fair complexions. Having freckles is genetic and is related to the presence of the melanocortin-1 receptor MC1R gene variant....

What color eye is most common?

Brown is one of the most common eye colors and, in many populations, it is the only iris color present. Eye color is an inherited trait influenced by more than one gene. In humans, three genes...

Screening for Skin Cancer

Screening for Skin Cancer What is screening? Screening is looking for cancer before a person has any symptoms. This can help find cancer at an early stage. When abnormal tissue or cancer is found...

What causes the loss of pigmentation, and white patches on the skin?

A loss of pigmentation in the skin is partly caused by an autoimmune deficiency condition called vitiligo, wherein pigment producing cells (melanocytes) in the skin are destroyed. While only...

What do lizard and freckled boy have in common?

To Understand what freckles are and how they appear, we have to understand what gives skin its color in the first place. The most important pigment in deciding the color of the skin is melanin. You...

Sunscreen is the best anti-aging product

Forget about the expensive products that claims anti-aging effects. I cannot stress enough how important sunscreen is to keep your youthful appearance, especially for you ladies. There are two...

White Patches On Your Skin?

Do you have white patches in the skin on different parts of your body? It is nothing but vitiligo, one of the skin disorder in which white spots appear on the skin when your skin loses pigment due to...

Mole and Melanoma: A Tale of Two Melanocytes

Mole and melanoma are both melanocytes that turn separate ways when given the same genetic mutation: one stops growing turning into a benign mole while the other gets out of control developing into...