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SALT LAKE CITY – Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) have generated the first “atlas” of human melanocytes located throughout the body. In analyzing the ...

Technologies such as DNA microarrays, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing (ChIP-seq) have enabled comprehensive analyses of transcription factor-target genes. By ...

Your skin color is determined by a pigment called melanin. Special cells in your skin called melanocytes create melanin, which gives your skin its color. How much melanin you have, as well as the type ...

A new study has found that UVA radiation damages the DNA in human melanocyte cells, causing mutations that can lead to melanoma. Melanocytes, which contain a substance called melanin that darkens the ...

Our hair, skin and eyes are colored by a pigment called melanin, which is produced by pigment cells called melanocytes. Scientists have used stem cell technology to successfully create melanocyte ...

Craig Ceol receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense and JW Holdings Pharmaceuticals. For nearly 20 years, I have been studying melanocytes and the role they ...

They found that while melanocytes may be present in apigmented regions and there were still melanocyte progenitor cells, the melanocytes were not differentiated. The researchers also found that the ...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) have generated the first "atlas" of human melanocytes located throughout the body. In analyzing the atlas data further ...