Blue Eyes Office for Science and Society - McGill University

Most babies are born with blue eyes because at the time of their birth melanin has not been ‘deposited’ in the iris. Melanin is a light-absorbing biopolymer synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine. It is responsible for determining eye colour and is encoded by genes, therefore, babies of Asian, African and Latino descent, normally, have more melanin indicating that their eye color is brown at birth. After six months, the babies’ genes determine the melanin production in the iris. This will dictate if the eyes remain blue or turn gray, green, hazel or brown. A long term study concluded that people's’ eye color can continue to change into adulthood.

Petition · Medical Laboratory Science: A Vital and Struggling Profession - United States ·

Evil eye, Protection, Superstition & Beliefs

Kujawa receives $3.7 million NIMH grant to identify predictors of suicidal behavior in adolescents - Notables

From the journals: JBC

People in this Indonesian tribe have dazzling blue eyes. Wait, but, blue eye

Browse Ophthalmology Through Art

PhD Candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill recognized in The Current for her success on Jeopardy and her innovative scholarship – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Science - Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Frosh — Science Undergraduate Society

Our Articles Office for Science and Society - McGill University

Chemical Society Seminar (Brown Lecture): Eli Zysman-Colman - The design of thermally activated delayed fluorescent and heavy-atom free room temperature phosphorescent supramolecular assemblies