Judging by the claims on the bottles, it’s easy to assume a simple zinc tablet is a quick fix for everything from the common ...

Genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can spread from microbe to microbe through circular genetic material called plasmids, and this lateral transfer occurs in the gut. In Applied and ...

In a remote village, an aid worker pricks a sickly toddler's fingertip, and like most of the other children's blood samples, this one turns a test strip yellow. That's how an experimental malnutrition ...

Imperial College London researchers have developed a new urine test that looks to chemical fingerprints for more precise zinc testing. This new approach, outlined in a new paper published in ...

After iron, zinc is the most abundant trace mineral in human cells, playing a role in immunity, protein synthesis and wound healing. Dietary zinc deficiency affects one-quarter of the world’s ...

Zinc is a mineral that is important for our immune systems, and it also helps infants, children and adolescents grow and develop. But the most exciting and most arguably important role of zinc – it ...

If you're among the 38 percent of people who lost your sense of taste after a COVID infection, you know what it's like to bite into a crunchy taco or lick your favorite flavor of ice cream and know ...