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This study found that melanin extracted from cuttlefish ink provided significant protection against UV radiation damage to human hair, suggesting its potential as a photoprotective agent in hair-care products.

This study reports the development of a natural hair-coloring system using size-controlled ink particles from cuttlefish ink combined with chitosan, achieving darker and more uniform black coloration on hair than existing plant-based natural colorants, without the need for metallic mordants.

This study reported that discarded squid ink was used to develop a high-performance, environmentally friendly hair dye that offers a stable deep black color, UV protection, and preserves hair structure, while showing excellent biosafety in lab tests.

This study reported that rice bran oil from the Thai rice variety BB4CMU showed potential in promoting melanin production and inhibiting steroid 5α-reductase, suggesting a natural option for hair revitalization.

This paper suggests that coating hair with drug-loaded nanotubes may offer durable drug delivery and color applications, with potential for both human and veterinary uses.

This study found that a hair-coating polyphenol complex significantly enhanced the mechanical strength, UV protection, and antistatic properties of damaged hair, suggesting potential benefits for hair treatment.

In this review, the authors summarized the potential therapeutic effects of metal ions in treating cardiovascular diseases, highlighting their roles in protecting cells, inducing angiogenesis, and adjusting ion channel functions, as well as discussing delivery strategies involving biomaterials.

This review highlights various plant-based and herbal treatments that reportedly help prevent hair loss and encourage hair growth. It also explores the molecular mechanisms, identified plant compounds, recent technologies such as nanoarchitectonics, and patents related to hair growth promotion.

This review highlights that Tremella fuciformis polysaccharide exhibits various bioactivities, such as antioxidant and immune-modulating effects, and explores its potential applications in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries.

This study found that nanofibers combining a polydopamine coating and curcumin nanocrystals were effective in treating diabetic wounds infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by providing sequential photothermal antibacterial action and promoting M2 macrophage polarization, which accelerated wound healing through enhanced angiogenesis and cell proliferation.

This review discusses strategies and advances in bioprinting for skin wound healing, concluding that bioprinting could offer promising solutions for skin regeneration despite existing challenges.

This study developed a portable electrospinning device that mimics hair for cosmetic thickening in a mouse model, showing performance comparable to benchtop models with added safety and cost benefits.

This review details how hydrogel composites play crucial roles in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and drug delivery systems, highlighting innovations in these applications and addressing challenges like bioactivity, biomechanical compatibility, and controlled drug release.

This collection of reviews, edited by Ken Lukowiak and Janis Weeks, explores diverse sensory systems across species, including olfaction, echolocation, magnetoreception, and visual adaptations, without presenting new experimental results.

This study revealed that different coat patterns in cats and cheetahs are related to variations in the aminopeptidase Q gene and endothelin-3 expression, which affects pigment production.

This study describes how feather pigmentation in birds is regulated by melanocyte distribution, differentiation, and patterned agouti expression, contributing to diverse and adaptive color patterns.

This study observed unexpected heterogeneity among pigment cells in human scalp hair follicles, identifying immature melanocyte populations outside traditional pigment production zones, raising questions about their potential roles beyond melanin synthesis.

This article discusses the roles of different proteins in melanogenesis and proposes a hypothesis to explain the diversity of human hair pigmentation, but it reports no new experimental results.

This study found that early pigment cell markers Sox10 and c-KIT, as well as DCT/TRP-2, were detectable in melanogenically-active melanocytes of the anagen bulb in human hair follicles.

In this study, researchers examined chicken feather follicle tissues from differently colored chickens and found that the genes SLC45A2 and GPNMB are involved in promoting melanin deposition, which enriches understanding of the genetic mechanisms affecting feather color.

This review discusses the role of zebrafish as a model for studying human hereditary pigmentary disorders and reports no new experimental results, emphasizing their genetic similarities and the genetic tools available.

This study found that phenyl-imidazole sulfonamide derivatives, particularly ISCK03, inhibited c-kit signaling and promoted depigmentation in various experimental settings, suggesting potential use as skin-whitening agents.

This study found that the cytoplasmic dynein component Dynlt3 is essential for effective melanosome transport and transfer in mouse melanocytes, linking melanosome positioning and acidity to the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.

This study by Pérez-Oliva et al. explored how Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 (MGRN1) affects melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) signaling, suggesting that MGRN1 competitively inhibits Gαs binding to MC1R, influencing pigment production.

In this study, researchers identified a gene expression pre-pattern and implicated the Wnt inhibitor Dickkopf 4 in the formation of color patterns in domestic cat embryos.

This study found that spleens of black C57BL/6 mice contain eumelanin, with properties different from skin and hair melanin, and may originate from skin melanin transported by immune cells.

This study found that transgenic expression of Endothelin 3 in mice can maintain a dark pigmentation phenotype independently of Mc1r signaling by regulating melanogenic genes.

This article discusses mouse genetic studies to explore factors influencing melanogenesis, highlighting pH and cysteine's roles, and proposes a hypothesis for human hair color diversity; it reports no new results.

This study discovered that the gene Tfap2b identifies a melanocyte stem cell population in zebrafish, essential for regenerating melanocytes with multi-fate potential into adult pigment cells.

In this study, researchers identified key genes such as EDNRB2, GPNMB, TRPM1, TYR, and DCT that regulate melanin deposition in the breast muscles of black-boned chickens, contributing to their unique pigmentation during embryonic development.