After treating a four-year-old pet Boer goat last week for severe selenium deficiency, veterinarians at Oregon State University's teaching hospital want to remind pet owners of the mineral's ...

Selenium is an essential element for life in humans and other animals, and selenium deficiency can be a major health problem. Because of that, farmers and ranchers sometimes try to get more selenium ...

As a result of climate change, concentrations of the trace element selenium in soils are likely to decrease. Because the selenium content of crops may also be reduced, the risk of selenium deficiency ...

The genomic structure of a theoretical selenoprotein of N exons is shown at the top of the figure, with the selenocysteine (Sec) codon (TGA) highlighted. Sec-charged transfer RNA (tRNA) is associated ...

Selenium is an essential micronutrient obtained from dietary sources such as cereals. The selenium content of foodstuffs largely depends on concentrations in the soil: previous studies have shown that ...