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Induced stem cells Moreover, iPSC transplantation make a contribution to repairing the testis of infertile mice, demonstrating the potentiality of gamete derivation from iPSCs in vivo and in vitro. The risk of cancer and tumors creates the need to develop methods for safer cell lines suitable for clinical use. An alter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells These authors claim that: "Unlike primary mesenchymal stem cells, which are used with little objective evidence in clinical practice to promote tissue repair, iMS cells contribute directly to in vivo tissue regeneration in a context-dependent manner without forming tumors" and so "has significant sco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells , typical trophoblast stem cells and extraembryonic endoderm cells. An analogous approach was used to induce activation of the endogenous Brn2, Ascl1, and Myt1l genes to convert mouse embryonic fibroblasts to induced neuronal cells. Thus, transcriptional activation and epigenetic remodeling of endoge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells The researchers discovered that GCSF-mimicking antibody can activate a growth-stimulating receptor on marrow cells in a way that induces marrow stem cells that normally develop into white blood cells to become neural progenitor cells. The technique enables researchers to search large libraries of ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells This induction of CRCs is reversible and removal of Y-27632 and feeders allows the cells to differentiate normally. CRC technology can generate 2 cells in 5 to 6 days from needle biopsies and can generate cultures from cryopreserved tissue and from fewer than four viable cells. CRCs retain a normal k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Consistent with the transwell experiments, conditioned medium induces and maintains CRCs, which is accompanied by a concomitant increase of cellular telomerase activity. The activity of the conditioned medium correlates directly with radiation-induced feeder cell apoptosis. Thus, conditional reprogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Importantly, the histopathology of these tumors was indistinguishable from that of the parental tumors that develop in the MMTV-Neu mice. Application of the CRC system to mouse mammary epithelial cells provides an attractive model system to study the genetics and phenotype of normal and transformed m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Under certain conditions macrophages can divide without losing features they have acquired while specializing into immune cells – which is usually not possible with differentiated cells. The macrophages achieve this by activating a gene network similar to one found in embryonic stem cells. Single-cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells However, the safety of these cells remains questionable. Since lineage conversion from pre-iPSC relies on the use of iPSC reprogramming conditions, a fraction of the cells could acquire pluripotent properties if they do not stop the de-differentation process in vitro or due to further de-differentiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells The glycosylation change is apparently not just the result of the initialization of gene expression, but perform as an important gene regulator involved in the acquisition and maintenance of the undifferentiated state. For example, activation of glycoprotein ACA, linking glycosylphosphatidylinositol ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells For example, neural progenitor cells can be generated from fibroblasts directly through a physical approach without introducing exogenous reprogramming factors. Physical cues, in the form of parallel microgrooves on the surface of cell-adhesive substrates, can replace the effects of small-molecule ep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) undergo self-renewal in the presence of the cytokine leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). Following LIF withdrawal, mESCs differentiate, accompanied by an increase in cell–substratum adhesion and cell spreading. Restricted cell spreading in the absence of LIF by either... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Substantial differences in 'adhesive signature' between pluripotent stem cells, partially reprogrammed cells, differentiated progeny and somatic cells allowed to develop separation process for isolation of pluripotent stem cells in microfluidic devices, which is: Stem cells possess mechanical memory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells INSCs can be derived from adult human fibroblasts by non-viral techniques, thus offering a safe method for autologous transplantation or for the development of cell-based disease models. Neural chemically induced progenitor cells (ciNPCs) can be generated from mouse tail-tip fibroblasts and human uri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Proof of principle experiments demonstrate that it is possible to convert transplanted human fibroblasts and human astrocytes directly in the brain that are engineered to express inducible forms of neural reprogramming genes, into neurons, when reprogramming genes (Ascl1, Brn2a and Myt1l) are activat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Conversion by forced expression of both eight or of the three transcription factors Sox10, Olig2 and Zfp536, may provide such cells. Cell-based in vivo therapies may provide a transformative approach to augment vascular and muscle growth and to prevent non-contractile scar formation by delivering tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells The team of scientists, who were led by Sheng Ding, used a cocktail of nine chemicals (9C) for transdifferentiation of human skin cells into beating heart cells. With this method, more than 97% of the cells began beating, a characteristic of fully developed, healthy heart cells. The chemically induce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Discovery of the mechanisms controlling the formation of cardiomyocytes led to the development of the drug ITD-1, which effectively clears the cell surface from TGF-β receptor type II and selectively inhibits intracellular TGF-β signaling. It thus selectively enhances the differentiation of uncommitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells See also: review The elderly often suffer from progressive muscle weakness and regenerative failure owing in part to elevated activity of the p38α and p38β mitogen-activated kinase pathway in senescent skeletal muscle stem cells. Subjecting such stem cells to transient inhibition of p38α and p38β in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells After transplantation into an immune-deficient mouse model of human liver failure, iMPC-Heps proliferated extensively and acquired levels of hepatocyte function similar to those of human primary adult hepatocytes. iMPC-Heps did not form tumours, most probably because they never entered a pluripotent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Unfortunately, human PSC-derived insulin-expressing cells resemble human fetal β cells rather than adult β cells. In contrast to adult β cells, fetal β cells seem functionally immature, as indicated by increased basal glucose secretion and lack of glucose stimulation and confirmed by RNA-seq of whose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Adult proximal tubule cells were directly transcriptionally reprogrammed to nephron progenitors of the embryonic kidney, using a pool of six genes of instructive transcription factors (SIX1, SIX2, OSR1, Eyes absent homolog 1(EYA1), Homeobox A11 (HOXA11) and Snail homolog 2 (SNAI2)) that activated gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells That is why, when iVPCs were implanted into myocardium, they engrafted in blood vessels and increased coronary collateral flow better than iPSCs, mesenchymal stem cells, or native endothelial cells. Ex vivo genetic modification can be an effective strategy to enhance stem cell function. For example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells This can be achieved in vivo by transient application of paracrine factors that redirect native heart progenitor stem cell contributions from scar tissue to cardiovascular tissue. For example, in a mouse myocardial infarction model, a single intramyocardial injection of human vascular endothelial gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells The terminal maturation of erythroblasts into functional RBCs requires a complex remodeling process that ends with extrusion of the nucleus and the formation of an enucleated RBC. Cell reprogramming often disrupts enucleation. Transfusion of in vitro-generated RBCs or erythroblasts does not sufficien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells An RNA interference-based mechanism used a lentiviral vector to express short-hairpin RNAi targeting β2-microglobulin transcripts in CD34-positive cells. Generated platelets demonstrated an 85% reduction in class I HLA antigens. These platelets appeared to have normal function in vitro One clinically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells See also overview A specialised type of white blood cell, known as cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), are produced by the immune system and are able to recognise specific markers on the surface of various infectious or tumour cells, causing them to launch an attack to kill the harmful cells. Thence, imm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells 1155/2012/720803"></ref> The approach of collection, reprogramming/dedifferentiation, re-differentiation and injection has been proposed for related tumor treatment. Dendritic cells (DC) are specialized to control T-cell responses. DC with appropriate genetic modifications may survive long enough to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Clare Blackburn and colleagues show that established age-related thymic involution can be reversed by forced upregulation of just one transcription factor – FOXN1 in the thymic epithelial cells in order to promote rejuvenation, proliferation and differentiation of these cells into fully functional th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells IPSC treatment with SB-431542 leads to rapid and uniform MSC generation from human iPSCs. (SB-431542 is an inhibitor of activin/TGF- pathways by blocking phosphorylation of ALK4, ALK5 and ALK7 receptors.) These iPS-MSCs may lack teratoma-forming ability, display a normal stable karyotype in culture a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells However, a large amount of mature adipocytes, which in general have lost their proliferative abilities and therefore are typically discarded, can be easily isolated from the adipose cell suspension and dedifferentiated into lipid-free fibroblast-like cells, named dedifferentiated fat (DFAT) cells. DF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells Implanted into defects created in the articular cartilage of rats, human iChon cells survived to form cartilaginous tissue for at least four weeks, with no tumors. The method makes use of c-MYC, which is thought to have a major role in tumorigenesis and employs a retrovirus to introduce the reprogram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Induced stem cells This epigenetic memory does not necessarily manifest itself at the pluripotency stage – iPSCs derived from different tissues exhibit proper morphology, express pluripotency markers and are able to differentiate into the three embryonic layers in vitro and in vivo. However, this epigenetic memory may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 |
Arachnoid (botany) Arachnoid as a descriptive term in botany, refers to organs such as leaves or stems that have a cobwebby exterior appearance, from being covered with fine white hairs, usually tangled. Such material is one common cause of plants having a grey or white appearance. The usages of various authors in dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36318138 |
Mena (Mercurian crater) Mena is a crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury. It has a diameter of 25 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Mena is named for the Spanish poet Juan de Mena, who lived from 1411 to 1456. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36322067 |
Caño Delgadito orthohantavirus (CADV) is a hantavirus present in Venezuela. Its natural reservoir is Alston's cotton rat. Transmission among cotton rats appears to be horizontal. While human disease caused by CADV has not yet been identified, it has been isolated from oropharyngeal swabs and urine of infected cotton ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36326574 |
Auguste Eugène Méquignon (21 February 1875, in Paris – 1958 in Paris), was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera, especially Staphyliniformia and Cucujoidea. He was a member of the Société entomologique de France and was president in 1922. partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36327396 |
Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des Produits de Santé (ANSM) superseded the tasks and duties of Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé (AFSSAPS) on 1 May 2012. It is responsible for assessing the benefits and risks associated with the use of health products throughout their life-cycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36332758 |
Mike Zuurman Michael Wilhelmer "Mike" Zuurman (born September 8, 1974 in Veendam) is a Dutch biologist by education and programmer for the non-profit organization Xentax Foundation in Emmen. His professional career is in programming, science and pharmaceuticals. His 'handle' is Mr. Mouse. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36337249 |
George Meyer-Darcis Georges Meyer-Darcis, full name Georg Gottlieb August Meyer-Darcis (or Meyer Darcis) (12 September 1860 in Wohlen – 3 January 1913 in Florence) was a Swiss botanist and entomologist. Georges Meyer-Darcis was the son of a world-famous straw goods manufacturer (Sogin & Meyer). From 1875 to 1878 he was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36341988 |
Max Bartel (1879 – 2 July 1914, Nürnberg) was a German entomologist. was an insect dealer (Insektenhändler) in Berlin. He specialised in Lepidoptera. He edited "Die palaearktischen Grossschmetterlinge und ihre Naturgeschichte". Band 1. Leipzig, (a monograph on butterflies) with Fritz Rühl and wrote pars Sesiidae in Ada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36342524 |
Split networks For a given set of taxa like X, and a set of splits S on X, usually together with a non-negative weighting, which may represent character changes distance, or may also have a more abstract interpretation, if the set of splits S is compatible, then it can be represented by an unrooted phylogenetic tree an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36356112 |
Azagny virus (AZGV) is an "Orthohantavirus" found in West African pygmy shrews. The virus was named after the Azagny National Park, where some sample collecting occurred. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36378177 |
RV Southern Surveyor The RV "Southern Surveyor" was an Australian marine research vessel. It was owned and managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), with its operations funded by the Australian Government to undertake oceanographic, geoscience, ecosystem and fisheries research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36400868 |
Whindust is a local name used in Scotland and the North of England referring to fine-grained grit or dust resulting as a by-product from the grinding and breaking of Whinstone. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36415769 |
Lorenz Oldenberg (2 January 1863, Berlin – 24 May 1931, Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera. was an official at the Patent Office. partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36424317 |
Johann Egger Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger (15 May 1804, in Salzburg – 19 March 1866, in Vienna), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Egger was a court physician in Vienna. Egger wrote only one scientific papers Egger, J. 1856. Neue Dipteren-Gattungen und Arten aus der Familie der Tachinarien und Dexi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36425203 |
RV Investigator RV "Investigator" is an Australian marine research vessel which was designed by RALion (joint venture between Robert Allan Ltd. and Alion Science and Technology). It was constructed in Singapore and is owned and managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36426182 |
RV Investigator Such instrumentation includes acoustic mappers, a pelagic sediment profiler to produce maps of the sea floor, and 2 Acoustic Doppler current profilers. The hull and the machinery of the ship have been designed to operate as quietly as possible to enhance its scientific capabilities. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36426182 |
Abell 222 is a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Cetus. It holds thousands of galaxies together. It is located at a distance of 2.4 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers noticed an invisible string of matter was warping spacetime between and Abell 223. Upon further examination by using images from the Japane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36426438 |
Abell 222 It is within Earth’s line of sight, so scientists were able to see a strong concentration of this gas within a section of the sky. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36426438 |
Abell 223 is a galaxy cluster. It is located at a distance of 2.4 billion light-years from Earth. The cluster is connected to nearby cluster Abell 222 by a filament of matter. Research has shown that only 20% of that matter is normal. The rest is thought to be dark matter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36426504 |
NGC 2146 is a barred spiral galaxy type SB(s)ab pec in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy was discovered in 1876 by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke. It has a diameter of 80,000 lyr. The galaxy's most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Eart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36448794 |
Inktomi (crater) Inktomi, also known as The Splat, is a prominent rayed impact crater in diameter located in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea. The crater is named for the Lakota spider-god Iktomi and is located at . Inktomi is thought to be the youngest surface feature on Rhea, with estimates ranging from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36456363 |
Crackle breccia is a type of breccia where the clasts have been separated by planes of rupture, but have experienced little or no displacement. The individual clasts in crackle breccia must not have experienced more than 10° average rotation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36458036 |
Karim Yassen is a Kurdish professor, who is known for finding the enzyme which causes gum disease. The research was done at Jagiellonian University in Poland. He works in the department of biology of Irbil's Salahaddin University-Erbil as a lecturer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36463855 |
C20H32N2O The molecular formula CHNO may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36477688 |
LARMOR neutron microscope The is a microscope based on the principle of neutron scattering. It is named in honor of Joseph Larmor and the principle of larmor precession that will increase resolution and accuracy. It is located at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in Oxfordshire. LARMOR will be used to make high-precision, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36493464 |
Franz Josef Kupido sometimes Cupido (6 August 1786, Brno- 17 December 1869) was a Czech entomologist principally interested in Lepidoptera. was a "Beamter". His collection is in the Moravian Museum, Brno. In 1825 Kupido described the autumn emperor moth, "Perisomena caecigena". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36499196 |
Reaktor Serba Guna G.A. Siwabessy Reaktor Serba Guna–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy (RSG-GAS) "(Multipurpose Reactor–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy)" is a research reactor located in the Serpong neighborhood of South Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. The reactor plays an important role in the Centre for Nuclear Industry Developm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36508850 |
Heinrich Ribbe (1832-1898) was a German entomologist. was an insect dealer in Dresden and Berlin. In 1876 he collected trade insects in the Crimea and in 1878 he collected for Otto Staudinger and Andreas Bang-Haas in Panama and Chiriqui. His private collection is in the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36519826 |
August Friedrich Böttcher (5 October 1825 – 20 November 1900) was a German entomologist. He was born in Berlin, where he became an insect dealer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36520038 |
Robert Brendel (c. 1821–1898) and his son Reinhold Brendel (c. 1861–1927) were botanical modelmakers in first Breslau then Grunewald Berlin. They produced accurate, large-scale models of plant structures. These were sold to technical universities teaching practical botany. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36520327 |
NGC 4700 is a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo. was discovered in March 1786 by the British astronomer William Herschel who noted it as a "very faint nebula". was imaged by Hubble in 2012, showing an abundance of star-forming regions similar to the Orion Nebula. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36522126 |
Achávalite is a selenide mineral that is a member of the nickeline group. It has only been found in a single Argentinian mine system, being first discovered in 1939 in a selenide deposit. The type locality is Cacheuta mine, Sierra de Cacheuta, Mendoza, Argentina. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36538030 |
Cattle creep A cattle creep is a small, field-to-field access for farm animals, usually to allow passage beneath an obstacle such as a road, canal, or railway embankment. As they are intended primarily for cattle or other livestock, cattle creeps usually have a low head height and are uncomfortable for humans to use. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36540089 |
Palomar Distant Solar System Survey The (PDSSS) was a wide-field survey aimed at finding distant trans-Neptunian objects that used the robotic 1.2 m Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and the QUEST large-area CCD camera. The survey was specifically designed to identify putative members of a Sedna-like popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36548291 |
Helmholtz flow is a term used in fluid mechanics for flow with free streamlines or vortex sheets. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36549035 |
August Alphonse Derbès (8 May 1818, Marseille – 27 January 1894, Marseille) was a French professor of naturalist, zoologist and botanist at the University of Marseille who studied reproduction of sea urchins and of algae. Derbès was the first scientist to observe the fertilization of an egg in an animal when he detaile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36571110 |
Pierre-Aimé Millet de la Turtaudière (1783 in Angers – 1873) was a French naturalist. He was Secrétaire Général de la Société d'Agriculture d' Angers. Partial list See also WorldCat listings online here | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36574871 |
Vasiliy Lindholm Vasiliy Adolfovich Lindholm (; 1874 – 17 September 1935), also published as Wilhelm Adolf Lindholm, was a Russian malacologist and herpetologist. Lindholm was a curator at the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. He published works on the mollus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36584185 |
Kálmán Lambrecht (1889–1936) was a Hungarian palaeontologist, best known for his work on fossil birds. He authored the “Handbuch der Palaeornithologie”, an exhaustive review of fossil birds published in 1933. Positions held include librarianship of the Geological Survey of Hungary. He died of heart failure in Budapest. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36590966 |
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections The (abbreviated SPNHC, often pronounced "spinach") "is an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society". Founded in 1985, the society... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36591692 |
NGC 1187 is a spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. has hosted two supernova explosions since the 1980s. In October 1982, the first supernova seen in — SN 1982R was discovered at La Silla Observatory and, in 2007, the amateur astronomer Berto Monard in South Africa sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36605602 |
Earle Hesse Kennard (August 2, 1885 – January 31, 1968) was a theoretical physicist and professor at Cornell University. Kennard was born in Columbus, Ohio and studied at Pomona College and Oxford University as part of a Rhodes Scholarship. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1913, where he would continue most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36613133 |
Sagittarius Stream In astronomy, the is a long, complex, structure made of stars that wrap around the Milky Way galaxy in an almost polar orbit. It consists of tidally stripped stars from the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy resulting from the process of merging with the Milky Way over a period of billions of years.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36613701 |
Tony Swain (chemist) Tony Swain (1922–1987) was a chemist known for his definition of a plant polyphenol with Bate-Smith, Haslam and White, which includes specific structural characteristics common to all phenolics having a tanning property. It is referred to as the White–Bate-Smith–Swain–Haslam (WBSSH) definition. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36665511 |
Flick (physics) In optical engineering and telecommunications engineering, the flick is a unit of spectral radiance. One flick corresponds to a spectral radiance of 1 watt per steradian per square centimeter of surface per micrometer of span in wavelength (W·sr·cm·μm). This is equivalent to 10 watts per steradian per c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36687166 |
Moisture expansion is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in moisture content. The macroscopic effect is similar to that of thermal expansion but the microscopic causes are very different. is caused by hygroscopy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36688650 |
NGC 2119 (also identified as UGC 3380 or PGC 18136) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Édouard Stephan on January 9, 1880. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36694720 |
Lagrangian particle tracking In experimental fluid mechanics, Lagrangian Particle Tracking refers to the process of determining long 3-Dimensional trajectories of small neutrally buoyant particles (flow tracers) that are freely suspended within a turbulent flow field. These are usually obtained by 3-D Particle Tracking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36714938 |
Longest linear sequence In synthetic chemistry, the longest linear sequence, commonly abbreviated as LLS, is the largest number of reactions required to go from the starting materials to the products in a multistep sequence. This concept is very important when trying to optimize a synthetic plan. Since every reaction s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36715119 |
NGC 5970 is a large barred-spiral galaxy located about 90 million light years away in the constellation Serpens Caput. It appears to have two satellite or companion galaxies. can be seen 1° southwest of the star Chi Serpentis. A faint halo of dust can be seen around the galaxy's outer spiral arms. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36741953 |
Bennett's laws of quantum information are: where formula_1 indicates "can do the job of". These principles were formulated around 1993 by Charles H. Bennett. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36750998 |
Llewellyn separator The is a membrane molecular separator, a device for interfacing the effluence from a gas chromatograph to the ion source input of a mass spectrometer by changing a rather large (e.g. 10^4 TorrLitre) dilute (e.g. 1 part of vapour in 10^5 parts of carrier gas) gas flow into a small(e.g. <10^-3 TorrLit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36754975 |
Hypogene In ore deposit geology, hypogene processes occur deep below the earth's surface, and tend to form deposits of primary minerals, as opposed to supergene processes that occur at or near the surface, and tend to form secondary minerals. At great depth the pressure is high, and water can remain liquid at temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36757278 |
Hypogene The word hypogene is derived from the Greek "hypo-" meaning "under" and "-gene" meaning "born" or "produced". The terms "hypogene" and "supergene" refer to the depth at which they occur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36757278 |
British Bryological Society The is an academic society dedicated to bryology, which encourages the study of bryophytes – mosses and liverworts. It publishes the peer-reviewed "Journal of Bryology". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36758008 |
Boron aluminum titanium hydride Boron Aluminum Titanium Hydride (BATH) was developed as a radiation shielding material in the NERVA project for space nuclear thermal propulsion applications. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36763436 |
Tengion Tengion, Inc. is an American development-stage regenerative medicine company founded in 2003 with financing from J&J Development Corporation, HealthCap and Oak Investment Partners, which is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Its goals are discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36772719 |
Tengion On September 4, 2012, received a notice from NASDAQ stating that the company had not regained compliance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) and that its common stock would cease trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market effective on September 6, 2012, and would begin trading on the OTCQB tier of the OTC Marketplace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36772719 |
Tengion The company also develops the Neo-Bladder Augment, a Phase II clinical trial product for the treatment of neurogenic bladder resulting from spina bifida in pediatric patients, as well as neurogenic bladder resulting from spinal cord injury in adult patients; the Neo-Bladder Replacement to serve as a functioning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36772719 |
Mitja Brodar Mitja (Demetrij) Brodar (1921 – 16 February 2012) was a Slovenian paleontologist. He was a son of Srečko Brodar, a pioneer of the study of the Paleolithic period in Slovenia. In the sixties and seventies of the 20th century Brodar, together with France Osole, was leading the Paleolithic research in Sloveni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36774535 |
Philipp Maximilian Opiz Philipp (Filip) Maximilian Opiz (5 June 1787 in Čáslav – 20 May 1858 in Prague) was a Czech-German forester and botanist. Beginning in 1805 he served as a cameral-beamter in his hometown of Čáslav, later working in Pardubice (from 1808) and Prague (from 1814). In 1831 he became a "Forstamtsconci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36774855 |
Autochthon (geology) An autochthon in structural geology is a large block or mass of rock which is in the place of its original formation relative to its basement or foundation rock. It can be described as rooted to its basement rock as opposed to an allochthonous block or nappe which has been relocated from its site o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36795154 |
Stanisław Baranowski (25 March 1935 – 27 August 1978) was a Polish glaciologist and leader or member of a number of scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen and Antarctica. He died as a result of an accident near the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station while on expedition. At the time of his death, he was head of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36795236 |
Stanisław Baranowski His obituary, published in the "Journal of Glaciology", stated the following: "was widely known and universally liked, and it is especially tragic that he died so young and while at the height of his creative powers." The polar station he had founded in Spitsbergen was named the Spitsbergen Polar S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36795236 |
Lars Skattebøl FRSC (born 16 July 1927 in Bærum) is a Norwegian scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. The Skattebøl rearrangement, a chemical reaction, was named after his discovery. Skattebøl received his degree in engineering from Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1951 and a doctorate in chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799714 |
Alberto Cambrosio is a sociologist of biomedicine at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the Université de Montréal. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a master's degree in Environmental Science from the Université de Sherbroo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799789 |
Bringelly Shale is a component of the Wianamatta group of sedimentary rocks in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia. It was formed in the Triassic Period. It is most often seen in the western parts of the city. The shale has its greatest geographical extent at Bringelly, near the suburb of Liverpool. It is similar to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36804196 |
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