Eye contact helps build trust and communication whether in business, friendships or romantic pursuits. Its importance in human socialization means that we're more likely to take note of eye color and ...

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Zika Uses Human Skin as 'Mosquito Magnet' to Spread Virus Further Jan. 30, 2025 — Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect ...

Researchers have created a map of human skin that uses genomics and other technologies to understand how skin forms and the mechanisms behind skin disorders. The findings could be used to create ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A study has identified key genetic pathways in corn that help its roots branch out to find water in soil; the varieties adapted to temperate regions like the U.S. corn belt showed ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

The skin is approximately 2 mm (0.079 inches) thick and in its entirety weighs nearly 6 pounds. Although there may be some differences in the skin from one person to another (such as the color, ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

An innovative organoid model mirrors the pancreas' complexity, generating all three key cell types to explore development and possible regeneration.