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The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities is using September to highlight that people with albinism, who have a rare genetic condition affecting melanin production, face not only ...
Nigeria’s pageant industry has long celebrated conventional ideals of beauty. But here at the Albinism Advocacy Pageant in Lagos, the message is diversity and the goal to break the stigma surrounding ...
In the still waters of an indoor swamp nestled within the California Academy of Sciences, a ghostly figure glides just ...
While sharks have been found with albinism and xanthism, this pale-eyed, gold-skinned shark is the first nurse shark ...
A black mum of two children born with albinism thought doctors ‘gave her the wrong baby’. Ashley Grigg, 36, gave birth to her ...
In 2023, firefighters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered a partially xanthochromic big-eared possum. Researchers found it had mostly yellow fur with lighter yellow hairs on its back and sides, and ...
An orange nurse shark with white eyes surprises Costa Rica: scientists document the first case of combined xanthism and ...
Ndumiso Majola, a final-year medical student, uses his poetry to challenge misconceptions about albinism, inspired by his ...