Melanin is a natural pigment in your body that protects you from UV damage from the sun. People with darker skin tend to have more melanin and are therefore at a lower risk of sun damage.

Lilliana Hitchcock, Houston, Texas If by “albino” you mean an organism lacking the pigment melanin, then loosely speaking, yes, says Carly Muletz Wolz, a research scientist at Smithsonian’s ...