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Molecular diagnostics is a collection of techniques used to analyse biological markers in the genome and proteomethe individual's genetic code and how their cells express their genes as proteinsby applying molecular biology to medical testing. The technique is used to diagnose and monitor disease, detect risk, and deci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics During the 1990s, the identification of newly discovered genes and new techniques for DNA sequencing led to the appearance of a distinct field of molecular and genomic laboratory medicine; in 1995, the "Association for Molecular Pathology" (AMP) was formed to give it structure. In 1999, the AMP co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics Miniaturisation into a single handheld device can bring medical diagnostics into the clinic and into the office or home. The clinical laboratory requires high standards of reliability; diagnostics may require accreditation or fall under medical device regulations. , some US clinical laboratories n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics The fragile RNA molecule poses certain challenges. As part of the cellular process of expressing genes as proteins, it offers a measure of gene expression but it is vulnerable to hydrolysis and breakdown by ever-present RNAse enzymes. Samples can be snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen or incubated in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics PCR is currently the most widely used method for detection of DNA sequences. The detection of the marker might use real time PCR, direct sequencing, , microarray chipsprefabricated chips that test many markers at once, or MALDI-TOF The same principle applies to the proteome and the genome. High-th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics Some patients possess polymorphisms in specific places on the 2C19 gene that make poor metabolisers of those drugs; physicians can test for these polymorphisms and find out whether the drugs will be fully effective for that patient. Advances in molecular biology have helped show that some syndrome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics For example, Lynch syndrome is a genetic disease that predisposes patients to colorectal and other cancers; early detection can lead to close monitoring that improves the patient's chances of a good outcome. Cardiovascular risk is indicated by biological markers and screening can measure the risk ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics Many technologies for detection of sequence variations have been developed for cancer research. These technologies generally can be grouped into three approaches: polymerase chain reaction (PCR), hybridization, and next-generation sequencing (NGS). Currently, a lot of PCR and hybridization assays ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics Their IVD kits were basically validated on genomic DNA extracted from FFPE tissue. There’s also microarrays that utilize hybridization mechanism to do diagnostics of cancer. More than a million of different probes can be synthesized on an array with Affymetrix's Genechip technology with a detectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Molecular diagnostics Currently, Ion Torrent developed some NGS panels based on translational AmpliSeq, for example, the Oncomine Comprehensive Assay. They are focusing on utilizing deep sequencing of cancer-related genes to detect rare sequence variants. tool can be used for cancer risk assessment. For example, the BR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 |
Piggyback basin A piggyback basin (also piggy-back, thrust-sheet-top, detached, or satellite basin) is a minor sedimentary basin developed on top of a moving thrust sheet as part of a foreland basin system. Piggyback basins form in the wedge-top depositional zone of a foreland basin system as new thrusts in the forelan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439983 |
Mark A. Johnson is an American physical chemist and a professor of chemistry at Yale University. He received his Ph.D at Stanford University in 1983. Since 2011, Johnson is co-editor-in-chief of "Annual Review of Physical Chemistry". He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, a Fellow of the American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40451305 |
IC 2560 is a spiral galaxy lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia. It has a distinct bar structure in the center. The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40458248 |
High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor The (HANARO) (하나로) is a 30 MW multi-purpose research reactor located at Daejeon, Republic of Korea. It was designed by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) as a facility for research and development on the neutron science and its applications. HANARO has been pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40459735 |
NGC 6134 is an open cluster in the constellation Norma. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40460770 |
UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy , nicknamed "Godzilla galaxy") is a large barred spiral galaxy of type "SA(rs)c" in the constellation Perseus. It is from Earth and measures across, making it one of the largest known spiral galaxies. It is also a possible member of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster. is a spiral galaxy with a rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40461574 |
UGC 2885 This galaxy highlights that bars are able to form in spiral galaxies without the influence of another galaxy—this indicates that other forces, such as interactions between stars, gas and dust, as well as the gravitational influence of dark matter, might play a role in their development. On 17 January 2002, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40461574 |
ESO 146-5 (ESO 146-IG 005) is the designation given to a giant interacting elliptical galaxy in the center of the Abell 3827 cluster. It is well noted due to its strong gravitational lensing effect, measurements of which show the galaxy to be one of the most massive in the known universe, IC 1101 still being an estimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40468636 |
Synergistes jonesii is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is a rumen bacterium that degrades toxic pyridinediols. It is obligately anaerobic, gram-negative and rod-shaped. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40485358 |
Thermodesulfobacterium commune is a species of Sulfate-reducing bacteria. It is small, Gram-negative, straight rod-shaped, obligately anaerobic and has an optimum growth temperature of . Its type strain is YSRA-1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40485649 |
Thermodesulfobacterium hydrogeniphilum is a species of Sulfate-reducing bacteria. It is thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic, non-spore-forming, marine species, with type strain SL6 (=DSM 14290 =JCM 11239). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40485654 |
PGC 10922 is a lenticular galaxy located 200 million light years from the Earth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40518955 |
Spiroplasma citri is a bacterium species and the causative agent of Citrus stubborn disease. Its genome has been partially sequenced. The restriction enzyme SciNI, with the 5' GCGC / 3' CGCG, can be found in "S. citri". "Euscelis plebejus" can be used as a vector of the bacterium to experimentally infect white clover (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40521029 |
Specific mechanical energy is the mechanical energy of an object per unit of mass. Similar to mechanical energy, the specific mechanical energy of an object in an isolated system subject only to conservative forces will remain constant. It is defined as: formula_1 where In the gravitational two-body problem, the specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40523295 |
Specific potential energy is potential energy of an object per unit of mass of that object. In a gravitational field it is the acceleration of gravity times height, formula_1. Specific mechanical energy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40523438 |
Emil Tietze Emil Ernst August Tietze (15 June 1845, Breslau – 4 March 1931, Vienna) was an Austrian geologist. He received his education at the Universities of Breslau and Tübingen. Afterwards, he joined the Geological Survey of Austria (1870), an agency that Tietze would be associated with until his retirement in 1918... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40525206 |
Entomoplasma is a mollicute bacteria genus. "freundtii" can be isolated from the green tiger beetle ("Cicindela campestris", Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40535152 |
Mesoplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the class Mollicutes. is related to the genus Mycoplasma but differ in several respects. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40535205 |
Entomoplasma freundtii is a mollicute bacteria species that can be isolated from the green tiger beetle ("Cicindela campestris", Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40535307 |
Equid alphaherpesvirus 9 Equine alphaherpesvirus 9 (EHV-9) is a species of virus in the genus "Varicellovirus", subfamily "Alphaherpesvirinae", family "Herpesviridae", and order "Herpesvirales". It was first isolated from a case of epizootic encephalitis in a herd of Thomson's gazelle ("Gazella thomsoni") in 1993. Fata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542571 |
NGC 4866 is a lenticular galaxy located 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was first observed by British astronomer Sir William Herschel on January 14, 1787. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542576 |
Bulbul coronavirus HKU11 (Bulbul-CoV HKU11) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA "Deltacoronavirus" of avian origin found in Chinese bulbuls. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40543716 |
Jonathan Coleman (physicist) Jonathan Coleman is the Professor of Chemical Physics in the School of Physics and a Principal Investigator in CRANN at Trinity College Dublin. He received both his BA in Physics and his PhD from Trinity College Dublin. The theme of his research is the production and processing of nanomater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40546529 |
Ballas or shot bort is a term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of non-gem-grade and -quality diamonds. It comprises small diamond crystals that are concentrically arranged in rough spherical stones with a fibrous texture. is hard, tough, and difficult to cleave. It is mostly found in Brazil and South Afr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40563740 |
2MASS 1503+2525 2MASS J15031961+2525196 (2MASS 1503+2525) is a nearby brown dwarf of spectral type T5.5, located in constellation Boötes at approximately 20.7 light-years from Earth. was discovered in 2003 by Adam J. Burgasser "et al." in wide-field search for T dwarfs using the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). Curre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40572657 |
Calico (company) Calico LLC is an American research and development biotech company founded on September 18, 2013 by Bill Maris and backed by Google with the goal of combating aging and associated diseases. In Google's 2013 Founders' Letter, Larry Page described Calico as a company focused on "health, well-being, and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40578335 |
Calico (company) At the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, Calico lost two top scientists; in December 2017 Hal Barron, its head of R&D, left for GlaxoSmithKline, and in March 2018 Daphne Koller, who was leading their AI efforts, left to pursue a venture in applying machine learning techniques to drug design. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40578335 |
Kate Robb is an Australian zoologist, molecular genetist, and founding director & principal researcher of the Australian Marine Mammal Conservation Foundation, who, along with colleagues, declared in 2011 a new species of the genus "Tursiops", and formally named it "Tursiops australis". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40596532 |
George Büchi George Hermann Büchi (August 1, 1921 – August 28, 1998) was organic chemist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Paternò's reaction", known since the early twentieth century, was renamed to the "Paternò–Büchi reaction" based on enhancements made to it by Büchi's research group. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40605368 |
BCFW recursion The Britto–Cachazo–Feng–Witten recursion relations are a set of on-shell recursion relations in quantum field theory. They are named for their creators, Ruth Britto, Freddy Cachazo, Bo Feng and Edward Witten. The method is a way of calculating scattering amplitudes. This technique is widely used in analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40607155 |
Gas-flushing In chemistry, sparing, also known as gas flushing in metallurgy, is a technique which involves bubbling a chemically inert gas, such as nitrogen, argon, or helium, through a liquid. This can be used to remove dissolved gases (e.g. oxygen) from the liquid. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40611538 |
2MASS J03552337+1133437 (2MASS J0355+11) is a nearby brown dwarf of spectral type L5γ, located in constellation Taurus at approximately 29.8 light-years from Earth. 2MASS J0355+11 was discovered in 2006 by Reid "et al." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40617271 |
Friedrich Thurau (1843–1913) was a German entomologist. He specialised in butterflies. His collection of Palearctic lepidoptera is in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40618342 |
Trabecular cartilage Trabecular cartilages (trabeculae cranii, sometimes simply trabeculae, prechordal cartilages) are paired, rod-shaped cartilages, which develop in the head of the vertebrate embryo. They are the primordia of the anterior part of the cranial base, and are derived from the cranial neural crest cells. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40624269 |
Trabecular cartilage As clearly seen in the lamprey, Cyclostome also has a pair of cartilaginous rods in the embryonic head which is similar to the trabecular cartilages in jawed vertebrates. However, in 1916, Alexej Nikolajevich Sewertzoff pointed out that the cranial base of the lamprey is exclusively originated from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40624269 |
Trabecular cartilage The existence of premandibular arch(es) has been accepted by many comparative embryologists and morphologists (e.g., Edwin Stephen Goodrich, Gavin de Beer). Moreover, reported premandibular arches and the corresponding branchiomeric nerves by the reconstruction of the Osteostracans (e.g., "Cephalas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40624269 |
Phil S. Baran (born 1977) is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute and Member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology. He received his B.S. in chemistry from New York University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from The Scripps Research Institute in 2001, under the supervision of K.C. N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40624593 |
Charles Le Doux (17 October 1876 – ?) was a German entomologist. Le Doux was born in Berlin. He specialised in Lepidoptera especially the genus "Acraea". His butterfly collections are held by Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and his African Coleoptera by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., United ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40646553 |
Tony Bradshaw Anthony David Bradshaw FRS (17 January 1926 - 21 August 2008) was a British evolutionary ecologist He was born the son of an architect in Kew, Surrey and educated at St Pauls School, Hammersmith. He read Botany at Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1947 moved to the University College of Wales, first as a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40655036 |
Isla Vista virus (ILV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA orthohantavirus species of the "Bunyavirales" order. It is a novel New World microtine rodent hantavirus discovered in the California vole ("M. californicus") in Santa Barbara County, California, near Isla Vista. It is similar to Prospect Hill ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40659526 |
Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey The (CANDELS) is the largest project in the history of the Hubble Space Telescope, with 902 assigned orbits (about four consecutive months) of observing time. It was carried out between 2010 and 2013 with two cameras on board Hubble – WFC3 and ACS – and aim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40676777 |
Fritz Ludwig Otto Wichgraf (born 9 May 1853) was a German entomologist. Wichgraf's Lepidoptera collection was purchased by James John Joicey. His collections of "Acraea", Lasiocampidae and Bombycidae are in the Natural History Museum, London. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40681348 |
Dichorhavirus is a genus of negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses of plants within the family "Rhabdoviridae". Dichorhaviruses have segmented genomes and their short bacilliform virions are not enveloped. Dichorhaviruses are transmitted by mites. Table legend: "*" denotes type species. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40686103 |
Abbas Wasim Efendi ʿAbbās Wasīm Efendi (born 1689, Bursa, Turkey – died 1760 in Istanbul) was an Ottoman astronomer who wrote translations and commentaries used by astronomers and timekeepers of the Ottoman state. His most important work is a Turkish commentary on Ulugh Beg's "Zij". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40687430 |
Al-Adami ʿAbū ʿAlī al‐Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al‐Ādamī (flourished in Baghdad, c. 925) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials. According to al-Biruni, al-Adami was the first to construct a "disc of eclipses", an instrument which demonstrates solar and lunar eclipses. He should n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40695634 |
Ibn al-Adami Ibn al‐Ādamī (flourished in Baghdad, c. 925), was a 10th-century Islamic astronomer who wrote an influential work of zij based on Indian sources. The book, now lost, uses the Indian methods found in the "Sindhind". The 11th-century historian Sa'id al-Andalusi informs us that the theory of trepidation that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40695880 |
Dan Lubin is a research physicist and senior lecturer at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography since 1990. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, as well as Sigma Pi Sigma. He was a member of the National Ozone Expedition, and also participated in SHEBA. The general area of his research focuses on polar remo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40721919 |
Actin nucleation core An actin nucleation core is a protein trimer with three actin monomers. It is called a nucleation core because it leads to the energetically favorable elongation reaction once a tetramer is formed from a trimer. Actin protein dimers and trimers are energetically unfavorable. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40733699 |
Neochlamydia hartmannellae is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is a bacterial endocytobionts of "Hartmannella vermiformis", hence its name. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40739183 |
Halo mass function In cosmology, the halo mass function is a mass distribution of dark matter halos. Specifically, it gives the number density of dark matter halos per mass interval. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40744545 |
Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, CA, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It is most well-known for its SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of bovine tissue within a collapsible stainless-steel stent, deployed via catheter. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40749862 |
Edwards Lifesciences Edwards now has a presence in approximately 100 countries with 13,000 employees around the world. On January 25, 2017, Edwards completed the acquisition of Valtech Cardio for $340 million. The deal had been first announced the previous November. On December 6, 2017, Edwards acquired Harpoon Medical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40749862 |
Edwards Lifesciences The portfolio also includes a diverse line of cardiac surgery systems used during minimally invasive surgical procedures, as well as cannulae, embolic protection devices and other products used during cardiopulmonary bypass. The Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement business segment includes techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40749862 |
Fuzzy cold dark matter is a hypothetical form of cold dark matter proposed to solve the cuspy halo problem. It would consist of extremely light scalar particles with masses on the order of formula_1 eV; so a Compton wavelength on the order of 1 light year. halos in dwarf galaxies would manifest wave behavior on astroph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40749885 |
Meta-cold dark matter Meta"-cold dark matter, also known as m"CDM, is a form of cold dark matter proposed to solve the cuspy halo problem. It consists of particles "that emerge relatively late in cosmic time (z ≲ 1000) and are born non-relativistic from the decays of cold particles". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40750190 |
Polish Astronomical Society The (Polish: "Polskie Towarzystwo Astronomiczne, PTA") is science society in Poland, founded in 1923, with headquarters in Warsaw. Members of PTA are professional astronomers. Purpose of the association is promoting the development of astronomical science, their teaching and outreach in comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40753064 |
Novel virus refers to a virus not seen before. It can be a virus that is isolated from its natural reservoir or isolated as the result of spread to an animal or human host where the virus had not been identified before. It can be an emergent virus, one that represents a new virus, but it can also be an extant virus, on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40755473 |
Holophaga foetida is a bacterium, the type species of its genus. It is a homoacetogenic bacterium degrading methoxylated aromatic compounds. It is gram-negative, obligately anaerobic and rod-shaped, with type strain TMBS4 (DSM 6591). Its genome has been sequenced. It is known for its ability to anaerobically degrade ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40758946 |
Critical community size The critical community size (CCS) is the minimum size of a closed population within which a human-to-human, non-zoonotic pathogen can persist indefinitely. When the size of the closed population falls below the critical community size level, the low density of infected hosts causes extinction of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40763725 |
Silicyne Silicynes are allotropes of silicon. 1-dimensional silicyne is analogous to the carbon allotrope carbyne, being a long chain of silicons, instead of carbons. It is amorphous silicon with "sp" hybridization of the valence electrons. is a single linear molecule composed of just silicon atoms. One of the manners ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40772919 |
Kalahari High The is an anticyclone that forms in winter over the interior of southern Africa, replacing a summer trough. It is part of the subtropical ridge system and the reason the Kalahari is a desert. It is the descending limb of a Hadley cell. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40774203 |
Józef Lubański Józef Kazimierz Lubański (1914 – 8 December 1946) was a Polish theoretical physicist. Lubanski obtained the degree of magister philosophies at Wilna in 1937. He then worked for two years as an assistant in theoretical physics at Polish universities, and obtained a grant in order to travel to Holland and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40781220 |
Semicircle law (Quantum Hall) The Semicircle law states that for transport (extended states) of 2D electron gas in a magnetic field, the macroscopic conductivity tensor σ satisfies the semicircle law. with formula_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40782363 |
Abel Dufrane (8 May 1880, Frameries – 29 December 1960 Mons) was a Belgian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Dufrane studied the butterfly fauna of the Lake Kivu area of Central Africa. He was a member of the Royal Belgian Entomological Society. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40783865 |
Karl Grünberg (died 1921, in Rostock) was a German entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. was a professor at the University of Rostock. He wrote the Palearctic Notodontidae section of Adalbert Seitz's "Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde" and named several African butterflies. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40784448 |
Alfred Wyndham Lushington (22 September 1860 – 25 March 1920) was an Anglo-Indian dendrologist born in Allahabad, India and who worked as a forest officer in the Madras Presidency. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40793163 |
NGC 1433 is a barred spiral galaxy with a double ring structure located in the constellation of Horologium. It is at a distance of 30 million light years from Earth. It has an active galactic nuclei, and is a Seyfert galaxy that's also known as PGC 13586 which is named Miltron's Galaxy. The central region of the galaxy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40825792 |
Liquid-impregnated surface A liquid-impregnated surface consists of two distinct layers. The first is a highly textured or porous substrate with features spaced sufficiently close to stably contain the second layer which is an impregnating liquid that fills in the spaces between the features. The liquid must have a sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40828503 |
Liquid-impregnated surface PSLs are a class of phase change materials, which are in liquid state under ambient conditions and have a melting point higher than the freezing point of water. Thus the PSL changes into solid phase in a cold environment before water freezing can happen. While PSL impregnated textured surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40828503 |
Dynamic balance is the branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of a body or system of bodies, especially of forces that do not originate within the system itself, which is also called kinetics. is the ability of an object to balance while in motion or switching between positions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40831187 |
Doris Kermack Doris Mary Kermack FLS (née Carr; 1923 – 2003) was a British paleontologist and marine zoologist at Imperial College London. She completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The anatomy and physiology of the gut of "Arenicola marina" L.' at University College London in 1953. In 1988 she was awarded the Linnean Gold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40843534 |
Kenneth Kermack Kenneth A. Kermack (1919 – 2000) was a British palaeontologist at University College London most notable for his work on early mammals with his wife, Doris Mary Kermack. Among Kermack's other significant contributions was the observation that "Diplodocus" could not have had an aquatic lifestyle because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40844467 |
Billie Lee Turner (botanist) Billie Lee Turner (born 1925 in Yoakum, Texas) is an American botanist and the father of a geographer Billie Lee Turner II. He was a professor of botany at the University of Texas at Austin Where he also directed the botany research programme and herbarium. His main interest is spermatophyt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40849320 |
Gossip from the Forest (Maitland book) Gossip from the Forest: the Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales is a 2012 book by Sara Maitland about the connections between forests and fairytales in Northern Europe. It is structured around accounts of walks through 12 forests in Scotland and England, one per month of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40850094 |
Aleksei Lotman (also known as Alex Lotman and Aleks Lotman; born 6 May 1960 in Leningrad) is an Estonian biologist, environmentalist and politician. From 2010 to 2011 Lotman served as the leader of political party Estonian Greens. From 2007 to 2011, Lotman was a member of Estonian parliament Riigikogu, representing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40850116 |
J1000+0221 was the most distant gravitational lens galaxy known (up until the discovery of the IRC 0218 lens galaxy), and remains the most distant quad-image lens galaxy discovered so far. The measured distance the light has traveled, including the lensed deflection, is 9.4 billion light years. A very recent discovery ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40855383 |
Swell (geology) A swell in geology is a domed area of considerable areal extent. According to Leser, it is also called a sill (geology), and is a gently arched landform of various orders of size in topographic, sub-glacial or sub-hydric geology. It may be as small as a rock formation in a river or may assume continenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40861149 |
Biological computation The concept of biological computation proposes that living organisms perform computations, and that as such, abstract ideas of information and computation may be key to understanding biology, As a field, biological computation can include the study of the systems biology computations performed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40861214 |
Biological computation In a proposed fungal computer, information is represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium network, and an interface is realized via fruit bodies.. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40861214 |
Replicate (biology) In the biological sciences, a replicate is an exact copy of a sample that is being analyzed, such as a cell, organism or molecule, on which exactly the same procedure is done. This is often done in order to check for experimental or procedural error. In the absence of error replicates should yield t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40861730 |
Sky Map is an Android planetarium software application. was designed and developed by a group of Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of their 20% time. It's now "donated and open-sourced". On January 20, 2012, Google announced a student development partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and releas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40868671 |
J. Alan Holman was an American paleontologist, herpetologist, professor and Michigan State University Museum curator well known for his 1995 work called "Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in North America" which was published by Oxford Press. He graduated from Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana in 1953 with a degree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40883623 |
J. Alan Holman His colleague and friend, Jim Harding, helped complete some details so the book could be published. "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan", which includes 54 creatures, was included on the 2013 list of Michigan Notable Books—20 Michigan oriented books that include photography, poetry, memoirs, novels ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40883623 |
Max Beier (6 April 1903 in Spittal an der Drau – 4 July 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian arachnologist and entomologist. He studied zoology at the University of Vienna, and obtained his PhD there in 1927. He took up a post at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, in the same year, developing an expertise in pseudoscorpi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27527910 |
Cryosuction is the concept of negative pressure in freezing soil resulting from transformation of liquid water to ice in the soil pores whereby water migrates through soil pores to the freezing zone (through capillary action). Fine-grained soils such as clays and silts enables greater negative pressures than more coars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27554979 |
Ibragimov (crater) Ibragimov is a crater on Mars. It is named after the Azerbaijani and Soviet astrophysicist Nadir Baba Ogly Ibragimov. Ibragimov crater is located in the eastern part of Thaumasia Planum. Its diameter is 87 km. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27564906 |
Mieczysław Mąkosza Mieczysław Józef Mąkosza (born 16 November 1934) is a Polish chemist specializing in organic synthesis and investigation of organic mechanisms. Along with Jerzy Winiarski he is credited for the discovery of the aromatic vicarious nucleophilic substitution, VNS. He also contributed to the discovery of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27566285 |
Dick Jefferies Richard P.S. Jefferies was a paleontologist famous for developing the Calcichordate Theory of the origin of chordates, now widely discredited. Jefferies joined the British Museum in 1960, and was largely based there for the remainder of his career. Jefferies first came into contact with some carpoid mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27588249 |
Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939) was a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology. In 1907 he demonstrated that silicate sponges have the ability to re-form into functional creatures after the individual cells have been dissociated from one another by mechanical means (sieving th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27607861 |
Alexey A. Petrov Alexey A Petrov is an American physicist known for his theoretical research in the area of physics of heavy quarks. Currently, he is a Professor of Physics at Wayne State University. He is the first particle theorist in the State of Michigan to receive National Science Foundation's CAREER award Alexey ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27610028 |
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