All living things, including people, need zinc in their diets. Getting too little of this essential metal can impair growth and cause immune dysfunction, neurological disorders and cancer.
Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of reach. Calprotectin, a neutrophil protein abundant at infection sites, is ...
Andy Weiss receives funding from the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship and National Institutes of Health T32 and F32 fellowships. Caitlin Murdoch receives funding from National ...