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Barttin
Barttin (BSND, Q8WZ55) is a 320-aa two-transmembrane-helix accessory beta subunit of ClC-Ka/ClC-Kb chloride channels in kidney and inner ear; BSND mutations cause Bartter syndrome type 4A with sensorineural deafness, while hypomorphic alleles cause nonsyndromic deafness DFNB73.
Bartz v. Anthropic
Bartz v. Anthropic is a copyright class action in which authors including Andrea Bartz accused Anthropic of training Claude on millions of pirated books, settled for $1.5 billion.
Bārû
The bārû was a Mesopotamian diviner-priest who ascertained the will of the gods by extispicy, reading the entrails, above all the liver, of a sacrificed sheep.
Baru Chandidas
Baru Chandidas (বড়ু চণ্ডীদাস) is the medieval Bengali poet who composed Srikrishnakirtan, a narrative poem of about 8,500 lines on the love of Krishna and Radha.
Barúa Oil Field
Barúa Oil Field is an oil field on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia state, Venezuela, discovered in 1928 and operated under the Petroquiriquire joint venture.
Baruch (son of Neriah)
Baruch ben Neriah was the scribe and disciple of the prophet Jeremiah, writing his oracles at dictation and reading them publicly in the Temple around 605 BC.
Baruch College
Baruch College, also known as Bernard M. Baruch College, is a public senior college of the City University of New York in Manhattan focused on business and public affairs.
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין)
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין), American-born Israeli physician and Kach activist, shot dead 29 Muslim worshippers and wounded 125 at Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque on 25 February 1994; the Shamgar Commission found he acted alone.
Baruch Hager (Mekor Baruch)
Baruch Hager, known as Imrei Baruch, was the second Rebbe of Vizhnitz, leading the Hasidic court in Bukovina from 1884 until his death in 1892 or 1893.
Baruch Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz, Haifa
Baruch Hager (ברוך הגר) was a Hasidic rebbe of the Hager dynasty, fourth son of Yisra'el of Vizhnitz, who led Seret-Vizhnitz in Haifa from 1947.
Baruch I. Kanner
Baruch I. Kanner, also published as Baruch Kanner, is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who cloned the brain's neurotransmitter transporters for glutamate and GABA.
Baruch Krauss
Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known internationally for treating acute pain and anxiety in children.
Baruch Marzel (ברוך מאיר מרזל)
Baruch Marzel (ברוך מאיר מרזל), Israeli far-right activist born in the U.S. and living in Hebron; Kahane aide and former Kach leader; repeated Knesset bids; sanctioned by Britain, the EU, Singapore, and Israel.
Baruch Modan
Baruch Modan (1932–2001) was an Israeli physician and cancer epidemiologist who founded the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Sheba Medical Center and served as Director-General of the Israel Ministry of Health.
Baruch S. Blumberg
Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–2011) was an American physician who discovered the Australia antigen, developed the first hepatitis B vaccine, and won the 1976 Nobel Prize.
Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (Bento, Benedictus) Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch rationalist philosopher of the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. Excommunicated 1656; substance monism in the Ethics; Theological-Political Treatise 1670.
Baruch Steinberg
Baruch Steinberg was a Polish military rabbi, the last chief rabbi of the interwar Polish Army, murdered by the Soviet NKVD in the Katyń massacre in 1940.
Barue
Barue, also spelled Barué or Barwe, is a region of central Mozambique, today a rural district, that was an independent kingdom ruled by chiefs titled Makombe until 1918 and led the 1917 Makombe rebellion.
Barueri
Barueri is a municipality in Greater São Paulo, Brazil, 26.5 km from Praça da Sé, founded as a 1560 Jesuit village, emancipated in 1948, home to Alphaville, with 316,473 residents (2022) and one of Brazil's strongest municipal economies.
Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf, born in Caracas in 1920, was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering immune response genes.
Barum Czech Rally Zlín
Barum Czech Rally Zlín (55th edition 2026) is the Czech Republic's oldest tarmac rally, an FIA ERC round since 1984 run around Zlín and Otrokovice; Jan Kopecký holds a record 12 wins in Škoda machinery.
Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती)
Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती), born 1984 in Delhi, is an Indian actor known as Arnav Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and for OTT roles in Asur, Kohrra, and Raat Jawan Hai, with 18 award wins.
Barus
Barus, known in Arabic sources as Fansur, is a historic port on the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia, famed since the seventh century for its camphor trade.
Barus effect
The Barus effect, also called die swell or extrudate swell, is the expansion of a viscoelastic fluid, typically a polymer melt, after it exits a die.
Baruta
Baruta: municipality of Miranda state southeast of Caracas, Venezuela, and its colonial town center. Founded as an encomienda in 1568 and a doctrina town in 1620/1621; renamed Villa de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Baruta in 1655; municipality since 1987.
Barutel Roman Quarry
Barutel Roman Quarry (Carrière romaine de Barutel): Gallo-Roman limestone quarry on the Route d'Alès near Nîmes, France; escoude tool traces, inscribed Monument historique 1991 (PA30000097), stone supplier of the Arènes, Temple de Diane, and Maison Carrée.
Bārûtu
Bārûtu, "The Art of the Diviner", is a first-millennium BC Akkadian scholarly series on extispicy, divination from sheep entrails, with ten chapters and some 8,000 omens.
Barva
Barva (Barba) is a 2,906 m andesitic shield and complex volcano in Costa Rica's Cordillera Central, 23 km north of San José; largest volcano by volume (427 km³) in the Central American Volcanic Front, with no confirmed historical eruptions but Holocene activity to about 1700 CE.
Barwin domain
Barwin domain (Pfam PF00967), a ~125-residue double-psi beta-barrel domain defining PR-4 plant defense proteins; named after barley BARWIN (UniProt P28814); mediates chitinase, chitosanase, and RNase activities via histidines H11 and H113.
Barycentric coordinate system
A barycentric coordinate system, also called areal coordinates, locates a point as a weighted average of fixed reference points, introduced by August Ferdinand Möbius in 1827.