The mutation that causes blue eyes reduces the expression of OCA2 and hence reduces pigment concentration.
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Both diseases also affect internal eye cells known as retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells.
Antimony Trioxide: Used in paint pigment, plastics, adhesives, textiles, furniture, draperies, wall coverings and carpets.
Yet the colors of that rainbow are enriched by the pigment of those who came before us.
The facility recently resumed operations, but Merck says it will now build another pigment plant outside Japan.
The conglomerate makes a wide variety of products, from body armor to a whitening pigment called titanium dioxide.
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Albinism is a genetic condition that leads to little or no pigment in the eyes, skin and hair.
Dark feathers contain the pigment melanin, which protects feathers against the damaging effects of abrasion and UV radiation.
The blue pigment Mayans used to paint temple walls 1, 400 years ago was made of particles only about 50 nanometers across.
Among other things, the Tarantinos stripped paint from faded black concrete floors and tracked down their original red pigment.
People with albinism are born with genes that do not make the normal amounts of the pigment called melanin.
Pigment has always been closely tied up with the business of dyeing and with practical uses for ordinary paint.
Reiche emphasized how paint colors are also important with the designers spending many hours choosing the pigment for each element.
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The original Chubby Stick is a tinted lip balm, with less pigment than a regular lipstick and requiring less-precise application.
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Melanoma, a cancer of the skin's melanocytes, or pigment cells, hits 60, 000 Americans each year and kills 8, 000 of them.
Although the lenses are fixed in shape, they are connected via a network of fluid-filled channels, containing a light-absorbing pigment.
They then tested these proteins by mixing them with the molecules they would naturally react with when pigment is formed.
If you want something that has a high coverage capability, a very strong, durable white pigment, titanium dioxide is your choice.
The drug has been reported to cause changes to pigment tissues in the areas where it is administered and eyelash growth.
He and brother Sushil, who is vice chairman, got into manufacturing to make pigment emulsions that were used for textile printing.
The dye acts like chlorophyll, the pigment that makes plants green and that is responsible for absorbing sunlight and liberating electrons.
The whole is unified by Beckmann's faultless sense of just how much dry, brushy pigment will animate every part of the picture.
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He built up the pigment into a thick mask of impasto, fusing the colors by blotting the paint with sheets of newspaper.
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These beads even bore traces of red ochre, used as a pigment.
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This causes chlorophyll (a green pigment) to return to the orange skins imbuing them with a greenish or yellowish finish as they ripen.
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Pigment in millions of bubbles moving around in this way create the images of letters that can be displayed on flexible plastic sheets.
Zinc is also important for die-casting, galvanizing and rubber making and can be used as a paint pigment, wood preservative and agricultural fungicide.
Over the next several months, the erstwhile housepainter whitewashed the brick, discoloring his lime with pigment to give the walls an ancient tint.
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Over the years Simmons has accumulated assets engaged in businesses ranging from titanium dioxide pigment production to waste management to precision ball bearings manufacturing.
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For those he used lead white, a traditional oil pigment he reckoned would show up in an x-ray due to the heavy metal content.
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