Blue-eyed people also have a higher risk of uveal (eye) melanoma, a rare cancer that affects about five in every million individuals. The color of your iris doesn’t reflect the color of the pigment.

They scatter light so that more blue light reflects back out. Eye color depends on the iris, the colored part of the eye. It's a structure that contains muscle and other kinds of cells.

By keeping the bulb in the center and orbiting the blue gel (for the iris) and the opaque disk (for the pupil) around the bulb, the eye can appear to gaze in different directions. By adjusting the ...

The amount and type of color pigment in the iris defines eye color. In humans, phenotypically, eye color falls into one of these basic categories -brown, blue or green. Brown eyes are the most ...

This little one is a doll, but as it turns out, her eyes are more unique than previously thought. All kittens, including Maine Coons, are born with blue eyes, but the pigment "binds with the iris" ...