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Heather Woolery-Lloyd, MD, a dermatologist practicing in Miami, Florida, explains that vitamin C blocks tyrosinase, an enzyme your body uses to produce melanin, making it a natural skin brightener.

To further understand why the compound worked so well, Kolbe and his team used computational methods to model the structure of human tyrosinase. They found that the novel compound fits perfectly ...