We Found a Bunch of New Eye Color Genes | SciShow News

This week, scientists have managed to make tear gland organoids that cry, and have also found a bunch of new genes involved in eye color!

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Sources:
Tear Ducts
Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/f...
Press release 1: https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releas...
Press release 2: https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releas...
Sjogren’s: https://www.sjogrens.org/understandin... ogren

Eye Color
Original paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte...
Press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...
Mendelian trait: https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg20...

Image Sources:
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/f...
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia...
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...