Melanin is often talked about in terms of skin tone, but its role goes far beyond color. This naturally occurring pigment functions as one of the body’s most important defense systems, especially when ...
In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the ...
A new study lead by UCC palaeontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. Dr ...
Melanosomes are specialized intracellular organelles of pigment cells in which melanin pigments are synthesized and stored. They are members of a family of cell-type-specific lysosome-related ...