In his final quarter at UChicago, fourth-year Ben Heim has been taking his own advice. As president of the International ...

A person’s eye color depends on how much of a pigment called melanin is stored in the front layers of the iris, the structure surrounding the pupil. Specialized cells called melanocytes produce the ...

Hair color is the phenotypic modification of genes related to hair that shows noticeable variations within humans. Generally, hair colors are classified into dark and light in which the former is ...

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