Opsin 3 Tunes Skin Color (image)

Brown University

Caption

A team of Brown University researchers found that opsin 3 -- a protein closely related to rhodopsin, the protein that enables low-light vision -- adjusts the amount of pigment produced in human skin in response to ultraviolet rays.

Credit

Image by the Oancea lab

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