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Dornase alfa

Dornase alfa (Pulmozyme), recombinant human DNase I inhaled daily, is a mucolytic for cystic fibrosis lung disease; FDA-approved 1993, it cleaves extracellular DNA in sputum, improving FEV1 and reducing exacerbations.

Dornier 228

The Dornier 228 is a German-designed twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft with short takeoff and landing capability, seating up to 19 passengers, that first flew in 1981.

Dornier 328

The Dornier 328 is a twin-engine, high-wing regional turboprop airliner seating about 30, designed by Dornier near Munich and first flown in 1991, with 217 built.

Dornier DAR

The Dornier DAR (Drohne Anti-Radar) was a West German expendable anti-radar drone built by Dornier to destroy enemy radar installations; the project was canceled in 1994.

Dornier Do 17

The Dornier Do 17, nicknamed "The Flying Pencil", was a German twin-engine medium bomber flown by the Luftwaffe in early Second World War campaigns, including the Battle of Britain.

Dornier Do 18

The Dornier Do 18 was a German twin-engine flying boat, flown from 1935, that carried airmail across the South Atlantic and performed German maritime reconnaissance.

Dornier Do 217

The Dornier Do 217 was a twin-engined bomber and night fighter built by Dornier for the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, with about 1,730 built.

Dornier Do 31

The Dornier Do 31 was a West German experimental VTOL jet transport built by Dornier, the only jet transport able to take off and land vertically, flying from 1967 to 1970.

Dornier Do 335

The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was a German twin-engine heavy fighter of World War II with one engine in the nose and one at the rear.

Dornier Do J Wal

The Dornier Do J Wal was a German twin-engine all-metal flying boat designed by Claude Dornier, first flown in 1922 and used for pioneering ocean flights.

Dornier Do X

The Dornier Do X was a German twelve-engine flying boat, the world's largest passenger aircraft when it first flew in 1929, though only three were built and none succeeded commercially.

Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve

Dornod Mongol Biosphere Reserve (Mongolia, designated 2005) protects eastern Mongolian steppe on the Chinese border, 2,428,449 ha, core 570,374 ha, home of Asia's largest Mongolian gazelle herds, threatened by oil and mining.

Doro (musician)

Doro, stage name of Dorothee Pesch, is a German heavy metal singer born 1964 in Düsseldorf, frontwoman of the 1980s band Warlock and later her own solo band.

Dorofeeva

Dorofeeva, also known as Nadya Dorofeeva, is a Ukrainian singer and designer who spent 2010 to 2020 in the duo Vremya i Steklo before a solo career.

Dorohedoro (ドロヘドロ)

Dorohedoro (ドロヘドロ) is Q Hayashida's dark fantasy seinen manga (2000-2018, 23 volumes) about Caiman, a man with a reptile head hunting sorcerers, adapted by MAPPA into an anime (2020, Season 2 in 2026, Season 3 announced).

Doron Aurbach

Doron Aurbach (Hebrew: דורון אורבך) is an Israeli electrochemist and professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for pioneering rechargeable magnesium battery prototypes published in Nature in 2000.

Doron Ben-David (דורון בן-דוד)

Doron Ben-David (דורון בן-דוד), born 1980 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli actor known as Steve Pinto in Fauda, Ofir Leibowitz in Manayek, and the teacher Amir in The Lesson; also a Beit Zvi-trained stage actor and acting coach.

Doron Lancet

Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist and bioinformatician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for olfactory genetics, GeneCards, and the GARD prebiotic evolution model.

Doron Myersdorf

Doron Myersdorf is an Israeli entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a battery company founded in 2012 in Herzliya that develops extreme fast charging cells for electric vehicles.

Doron Shabat

Doron Shabat (דורון שבת) is an Israeli organic chemist and full professor at Tel Aviv University, known for creating self-immolative polymers, dendrimers, and chemiluminescent probes.

Doron Zeilberger

Doron Zeilberger, born 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli mathematician and Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University who pioneered computer-aided proof in combinatorics through WZ theory and Zeilberger's algorithm.

Doronicum

Doronicum (leopard's bane) is a genus of perennial rhizomatous Asteraceae herbs with yellow daisy-like flower heads, native from NW Africa and Europe to the Himalaya, placed in tribe Doroniceae and used ornamentally and medicinally.

Dororo (2019 TV series)

Dororo (どろろ) is a 2019 24-episode MAPPA/Tezuka Productions TV anime directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, adapting Osamu Tezuka's unfinished manga: Hyakkimaru, robbed of body parts by 12 demons, travels with the thief Dororo; distinct from the 1969 anime.

Dororo (どろろ)

Dororo (どろろ) is Osamu Tezuka's dark historical manga serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 1967-1968, about Hyakkimaru, born without 48 body parts pledged to demons, recovering them with the thief child Dororo; adapted as 1969 and 2019 anime and a 2004 PS2 game.

Dororo (どろろ) (2007 film)

Dororo (どろろ) is a 2007 Japanese live-action dark fantasy film directed by Akihiko Shiota, adapted from Osamu Tezuka's manga, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Ko Shibasaki; it grossed ¥3.45 billion in Japan and spawned no sequels.

Doros N. Theodorou

Doros N. Theodorou (Δώρος Θεοδώρου), born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer and professor emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens, known for molecular simulation methods predicting polymer properties.

Doros Nicolas Theodorou

Doros Nicolas Theodorou, born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer at NTUA known for molecular simulation of polymers and election to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Dorosoma cepedianum

Dorosoma cepedianum, the American gizzard shad (also gizzard shad, skipjack, hickory shad), is a North American clupeid fish of the family Dorosomatidae, a filter-feeding planktivore with over 400 gill rakers, ~300,000 eggs per female, and IUCN Least Concern status.

Dorosoma petenense

Dorosoma petenense, threadfin shad (sardina maya), a small schooling clupeiform fish native to Gulf of Mexico drainages from Florida to Guatemala, widely stocked as forage; cold-sensitive, filter-feeding planktivore.

Dorota Ryl

Dorota Ryl is a Polish politician of the Civic Coalition serving as Voivode of Łódź Voivodeship, the government's representative in the region, where she has appointed provincial medical consultants.