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DKristina M. Utzschneider

Kristina M. Utzschneider is an American endocrinologist at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and the University of Washington who studies type 2 diabetes.

DKSH

DKSH, officially DKSH Holding Ltd., is a Swiss company based in Zurich providing Market Expansion Services, sourcing, marketing, selling, and distributing products across Asia Pacific.

DKW

DKW was a German vehicle brand, founded by engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, that became the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer and a pioneer of two-stroke engines and front-wheel drive.

DKZ

DKZ (디케이지), formerly DONGKIZ, is a South Korean boy group under Dongyo Entertainment. The group debuted in 2019 and concluded activities in 2026 following a 2022 commercial breakthrough.

DLA Piper

DLA Piper is a global law firm formed in 2005 by the merger of the UK firm DLA and the US firm Piper Rudnick, with about 3,000 attorneys.

Dlala Thukzin

Dlala Thukzin, born Thuthuka Zindlovu in 1997, is a South African DJ and producer from Durban known for popularizing 3-step and for "iPlan", his double Platinum 2023 hit.

DLAT (HGNC:2896, PDC-E2) is the human gene for dihydrolipoamide S-acetyltransferase, the E2 core of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex on 11q23.1; its protein is the antimitochondrial autoantigen in primary biliary cholangitis and the cuproptosis target.

DLC1

DLC1 (Deleted in Liver Cancer 1, ARHGAP7, STARD12) is a tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 8p21.3-22 encoding a RhoGAP for RhoA-C and Cdc42, frequently deleted or methylated in liver, breast, and lung cancers.

DLD-1

DLD-1 (DLD1, CoCL3, ATCC CCL-221) is a human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line isolated 1977-1979 from a male patient; known for clonal heterogeneity (clones A and D) and shared origin with HCT-15, HCT-8, and HRT-18.

DLF (company)

DLF Limited, also known as Delhi Land and Finance, is an Indian real estate developer founded in 1946 by Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh and the largest publicly listed in India.

DLG1

DLG1 (SAP97, hDlg) is a MAGUK-family scaffolding gene at human 3q29, homolog of the Drosophila discs large tumor suppressor; it organizes epithelial junctions, synapses, and glutamate receptor trafficking.

DLG4

DLG4 (PSD-95, SAP90) is a human chromosome 17 gene encoding the most abundant MAGUK scaffolding protein of excitatory synapses; pathogenic variants cause DLG4-related synaptopathy, a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder.

dlib

dlib is a portable C++ toolkit of machine learning algorithms with Python bindings, created by Davis King and best known for face detection and face recognition components.

Oct 22, 2026

DLin-KC2-DMA

DLin-KC2-DMA, known as KC2, is a synthetic ionizable cationic lipid used in lipid nanoparticles to deliver siRNA, and the ancestor of the clinically approved lipid MC3.

Oct 22, 2026

DLin-MC3-DMA

DLin-MC3-DMA, also known as MC3, is a synthetic ionizable cationic lipid used in lipid nanoparticles to deliver RNA, most notably in Onpattro (patisiran), the first FDA-approved siRNA drug in 2018.

DLK1

DLK1 (Pref-1, FA-1), Delta Like Non-Canonical Notch Ligand 1: paternally expressed imprinted gene at human 14q32 in the DLK1-DIO3 cluster; encodes a six-EGF-repeat transmembrane protein that blocks adipocyte differentiation; mutations cause central precocious puberty and Temple syndrome.

DLL4

DLL4 (delta-like canonical Notch ligand 4, Dll4) is a transmembrane Notch1/Notch4 ligand, VEGF-induced brake on angiogenic sprouting, haploinsufficient-lethal in mice, linked to Adams-Oliver syndrome and targeted by the tovecimig DLL4-VEGF bispecific antibody.

DLMS/COSEM

DLMS/COSEM (IEC 62056) is an international standard suite for smart energy metering, combining the DLMS application layer and the COSEM object model, standardized since 2002.

DLNA

DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) was a consortium founded by Sony in 2003 that set guidelines for sharing media between devices on a home network.

dLocal

dLocal is a cross-border payments company founded in 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay, letting global merchants accept local payment methods in emerging markets through a single API.

DLP Capital

DLP Capital is a private real estate investment firm founded by Don Wenner in 2006, headquartered in St. Augustine, Florida, financing attainable workforce housing through credit and equity funds.

Oct 22, 2026

DLPNO-CCSD(T)

DLPNO-CCSD(T) is a reduced-scaling quantum chemical method developed by Frank Neese and coworkers in 2013 that approximates the canonical CCSD(T) "gold standard", achieving near-linear scaling while recovering about 99.9% of its correlation energy.

DLR Hand II

The DLR Hand II is a multisensory anthropomorphic robotic hand developed by the German Aerospace Center, introduced in 2001 with four identical fingers and 13 degrees of freedom.

DLsite (ディーエルサイト)

DLsite (ディーエルサイト) is a Japanese e-commerce and digital distribution service, founded in 1996, and one of the largest marketplaces for doujin manga, games, and audio works, many of them adult-oriented.

Oct 26, 2026

dlt

dlt (data load tool), the dlthub Python ELT library, distinct from Databricks' Delta Live Tables: open-source, Apache 2.0, extract-normalize-load pipelines with schema inference, incremental loading, and warehouse destinations.

DLVO theory

DLVO theory, the Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek theory, is the classical theory of colloid stability, developed by Derjaguin and Landau in 1941 and independently by Verwey and Overbeek in 1948.

DM Biologics (缔脉生物)

DM Biologics (缔脉生物), formally 缔脉生物医药科技（上海）有限公司, is a clinical contract research organization founded in Shanghai in 2016 by Dr. Lingshi Tan; it merged with Clinipace in 2021.

DM Tau

DM Tau is a young T Tauri star in the constellation Taurus, about 470 light-years away, surrounded by a protoplanetary disk with two dust rings.

DM10 domain

DM10 domain: conserved ~105-residue protein domain of unknown function (SMART SM000676, InterPro IPR006602, PROSITE PS51336), found singly in nm23-H7 nucleoside diphosphate kinases and in three copies in ciliary proteins Rib72/EFHC1.