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Bachendri Pal
Bachendri Pal (born 1954) is an Indian mountaineer, the first Indian woman to summit Mount Everest, on 23 May 1984; Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee and longtime head of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation.
Bachhav Shobha Dinesh
Bachhav Shobha Dinesh, born 1959, is an Indian National Congress politician and physician who has represented Dhule, Maharashtra, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as mayor of Nashik and in the Maharashtra assembly.
Bachi (film)
Bachi (బాచి), also Baachi, is a 2000 Telugu action comedy directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Jagapathi Babu and debutant Neelambari, with Chakri's debut score. It opened strongly but flopped, based on a Vijayawada lottery fraud case.
Bachir Attar
Bachir Attar is a Moroccan musician and bandleader who has led the Master Musicians of Jajouka since 1982, collaborating with the Rolling Stones and Ornette Coleman.
Bachir Gemayel
Bashir Gemayel (بشير الجميّل, 1947-1982), Lebanese Forces militia founder and Kataeb leader, son of Pierre Gemayel; elected Lebanese president 23 August 1982 with Israeli backing, assassinated 14 September 1982 before taking office.
Bachkovo Monastery
Bachkovo Monastery, also known as Petritsoni Monastery, is the second largest monastery of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, founded in 1083 in the Rhodope Mountains near Plovdiv.
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO), Canadian hard rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, formed 1972 by Randy Bachman, Fred Turner, and the Bachman brothers. Hits 'Takin' Care of Business' and 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet'; Not Fragile topped US charts; over 7 million 1970s albums sold.
Bachmann Industries
Bachmann Industries, also known as Bachmann Trains, is an American model railroad maker in Philadelphia, founded in 1833 and owned since the 1980s by Hong Kong's Kader group.
Bachna Ae Haseeno
Bachna Ae Haseeno (बचना ऐ हसीनो), also released as Detours of Love, is a 2008 Yash Raj Films Hindi romantic comedy directed by Siddharth Anand, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, and Deepika Padukone, about a heartbreaker seeking forgiveness from three women.
Bachtiar Karim
Bachtiar Karim, born Lim Ek Tjioe, is an Indonesian businessman who chairs Musim Mas, a Singapore-headquartered palm oil group, and is worth an estimated US$4.2 billion.
Bachuan
Bachuan (巴川, Bachuan Jiedao) is a subdistrict and government seat of Tongliang District, Chongqing, China; site of the historic Tang-era Bachuan County, about 209,000 residents, 37.3 km², on the Bachuan River.
Bachue Corona
Bachue Corona is a 463-km-wide corona, a volcano-tectonic structure, on Venus at 73.3°N, 261.4°E in Metis Regio; IAU-named in 1985 for the Chibcha fertility goddess, it is an asymmetrical corona with one-sided ridges.
Bachy Soletanche
Bachy Soletanche is the trading name of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong subsidiaries of Soletanche Bachy, a French ground engineering group formed by the 1997 merger of Soletanche and Bachy and owned by VINCI.
Bacias hidrograficas
Bacias hidrograficas is the Portuguese term for drainage basins, or watersheds: land areas that drain water, sediment, and dissolved materials to a common stream outlet.
Baciga
Baciga (Báciga) is a Uruguayan fishing-type card game, a variant of Chorizo and Escoba, named for a declared three-card combination summing to 9 or less worth 2 points; played with a 40-card Spanish deck, captures totalling 15, and a 21-point target.
Bacillaceae
Bacillaceae is a family of low-G+C Gram-positive, endospore-forming bacteria in Bacillota, type genus Bacillus, order Caryophanales (formerly Bacillales); 62 genera by 2014, heavily revised by 2024 phylogenomics.
Bacillomycin
Bacillomycin is a family of cyclic lipopeptide antibiotics produced by Bacillus subtilis and related species. Members include bacillomycin D, L, and F, studied for antifungal food preservation and crop biocontrol.
Bacilloscopy
Bacilloscopy, also called sputum smear microscopy or acid-fast bacillus (AFB) testing, is microscopic examination of stained smears to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Ziehl-Neelsen or auramine staining, 25-75% sensitivity versus culture, high specificity.
Bacillota
Bacillota (formerly Firmicutes) is a phylum of predominantly Gram-positive, low-G+C bacteria including Bacillales and Eubacteriales; type genus Bacillus; many form endospores; dominant in the human gut with Bacteroidetes.
Bacillus
Bacillus, genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, endospore-forming Firmicutes bacteria described by Cohn in 1872; includes B. subtilis, B. anthracis, and B. cereus; major taxonomy reclassifications and wide industrial, probiotic, and biocontrol uses.
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, also known via the operational group with B. velezensis, is a Gram-positive, spore-forming rhizosphere bacterium in the B. subtilis group, used for biocontrol lipopeptides, enzymes, and GRAS/QPS-listed applications.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus anthracis, the anthrax bacillus, is a Gram-positive spore-forming bacterium causing anthrax. Its two virulence plasmids pXO1 and pXO2 carry toxin and capsule genes; spores persist in soil for decades and it is a Tier 1 bioterrorism select agent.
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin immunotherapy
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is the standard treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a weakened tuberculosis bacterium is instilled into the bladder weekly to provoke an immune attack on tumor cells.
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin therapy
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin therapy is an immunotherapy in which live Mycobacterium bovis is instilled into the bladder, the standard treatment after resection of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Bacillus cereus
Bacillus cereus (B. cereus), a spore-forming Gram-positive soil bacterium of the B. cereus group with B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis; causes emetic (cereulide) and diarrheal (Hbl, Nhe, CytK) food poisoning and opportunistic infections.
Bacillus clausii
Bacillus clausii (Shouchella clausii, Alkalihalobacillus clausii) is a spore-forming Gram-positive soil bacterium used as a probiotic; the four-strain Enterogermina (O/C, N/R, SIN, T) treats diarrhea and holds FDA GRAS status for food use.
Bacillus coagulans
Bacillus coagulans, now Heyndrickxia coagulans (formerly Lactobacillus sporogenes, Weizmannia coagulans), is a spore-forming, lactic-acid-producing probiotic bacterium described by Hammer in 1915 from coagulated condensed milk, with GRAS-notified strains and IBS trial evidence.
Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086
Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086 (GanedenBC30, BC30) is a spore-forming probiotic strain by Ganeden Biotech, GRAS per FDA GRN 399 (2012), also cleared for infant formula (GRN 660) and inactivated use (GRN 670, 725).
Bacillus competence protein S
ComS (Bacillus competence protein S) is a 46-amino-acid anti-adaptor in the srfA operon of Bacillus subtilis; it binds MecA to spare ComK from ClpCP degradation, triggering genetic competence, and is dispensable for surfactin and biofilm behaviors.
Bacillus licheniformis
Bacillus licheniformis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming soil bacterium in the Bacillus subtilis group, found on bird feathers and used to make industrial enzymes like subtilisin.