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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two women pose with a frog. Paleontologists have discovered the earliest molecular evidence of the toxic pigment that causes 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 ...

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

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 ...