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Danon disease

Danon disease (MIM 300257), LAMP2 deficiency, glycogen storage disease IIb: rare X-linked dominant cardiomyopathy-myopathy-intellectual disability disorder from LAMP-2 protein loss, earlier and more severe in males.

Danone

Danone, French food and beverage multinational founded 1919 in Barcelona by Isaac Carasso, named after son Daniel; Paris headquarters, Euronext Paris listed; three categories (dairy and plant-based, waters, specialized nutrition), €27.3bn 2025 sales, B Corp certified, Société à Mission pioneer.

Danoprevir

Danoprevir (ITMN-191, R7227, RG7227) is an oral macrocyclic HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor approved in China in 2018; ritonavir-boosted danoprevir with interferon and ribavirin reached 97.1% SVR12 in Chinese genotype 1 patients.

Danpyeon soseol

Danpyeon soseol (단편소설) is the Korean short story form, readable in half an hour to two hours and built around a single effect and unity of construction.

Danrin school

The Danrin school (談林派) was a school of comic haikai verse in Edo Japan, led by Nishiyama Sōin, that dominated haikai from the 1660s to about 1681.

Dansaekhwa

Dansaekhwa (단색화, Korean for "monochrome painting") is a school of monochrome abstract painting that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, known for repetitive techniques like pushing paint through cloth.

Dansband

A dansband (danseband in Norwegian and Danish) is a Scandinavian ensemble that plays dance music for partner dancing, with short, chorus-driven songs in foxtrot, waltz, and bugg tempos.

Dansby Swanson

Dansby Swanson (James Dansby Swanson, born 1994) is an MLB shortstop for the Chicago Cubs; first overall 2015 pick, 2021 World Series champion with Atlanta, two-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner.

Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre (Dance of Death, Totentanz) is a late medieval allegory in which Death, shown as a skeleton, summons people of every social rank, from pope to child, into a dance; it originated in 14th-century literature, first appeared visually in Paris in 1424–25, and spread through over 500 mural and print cycles by 1800.

Danse Macabre (Efteling)

Danse Macabre is a haunted dark ride at the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands, opened in 2024 on the site of the former Spookslot Haunted House.

Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)

Danse macabre, Op. 40 is Camille Saint-Saëns's 1874 symphonic poem in G minor, expanded from his 1872 song on Henri Cazalis's poem, featuring a scordatura solo violin tritone, xylophone skeletons, and a Dies irae parody.

Dansgaard–Oeschger event

A Dansgaard–Oeschger event (D-O event), named for Willi Dansgaard and Hans Oeschger, is one of about 25 abrupt millennial-scale climate oscillations of the last glacial period.

Dansimga

Dansimga (단심가, "Song of the Red Heart") is a sijo, a three-line Korean fixed-form poem, composed in the late Goryeo period by Jeong Mongju as his answer to Yi Bang-won's Hyeoga, declaring loyalty until death.

Dansk Undergrunds Consortium

Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC) is a joint venture producing most of Denmark's oil and natural gas from the Danish North Sea, formed in 1962 around A.P. Møller's sole concession.

Danske Bank

Danske Bank is a Danish bank, the dominant bank in Denmark and second-largest in the Nordic region, known for the Estonian money-laundering scandal of 2007 to 2015.

Danske Studier

Danske Studier, meaning Danish Studies, is a Danish peer-reviewed scholarly journal founded in 1904 that publishes research on Danish language and literature once a year.

Dansketinden (Stauning Alper)

Dansketinden, highest peak of the Stauning Alps in East Greenland near Alpefjord; elevations reported from 2,741 to 2,930 m; first climbed 5 August 1954 by Swiss mountaineers.

Dansons

Dansons is a 2026 French-language ballad by Céline Dion, written by Jean-Jacques Goldman, released April 17, 2026 on Columbia. Her first French song in ten years, written in 2020 during lockdown, it preceded her Paris La Défense Arena residency.

Dansyl chloride

Dansyl chloride (5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonyl chloride, also called DNS-Cl) is a reagent that attaches a fluorescent dansyl group to amines, used in protein end-group analysis, amino acid analysis, and HPLC derivatization.

Danta Vartti

Danta Vartti, a classical Ayurvedic varti (medicated stick) eye formulation from Ashtanga Hridaya Uttarasthana 11:33-33½, entry 13:5 in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, made from animal tooth and tusk ingredients.

Dantakumāra

Dantakumāra (दन्तकुमार) is, in Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicle tradition, the prince of Ujjain who with his wife Hemamālā brought the Buddha's Tooth Relic to Ceylon.

DanTDM

DanTDM (Daniel Robert Middleton, born 1991) is an English gaming YouTuber whose channel TheDiamondMinecart, launched July 14, 2012 and renamed DanTDM in 2016, became YouTube's most viewed gaming channel; he topped the 2017 creator earnings list.

Dante (Devil May Cry)

Dante (ダンテ), Capcom's Devil May Cry protagonist, is a half-demon devil hunter, son of Sparda, running the Devil May Cry agency; main playable character in most series games, from the 2001 original through Devil May Cry 5, plus anime and crossover cameos.

Dante (film)

Dante (2026) is a Spanish thriller directed and written by Hugo Ruiz, starring Chino Darín and Ester Expósito; a night-shift paramedic is trapped by gangsters after an emergency call. Premiered at Tribeca 2026, distinct from In the Hand of Dante.

Dante (footballer)

Dante (Dante Bonfim Costa Santos), Brazilian centre-back born 1983 in Salvador; Bayern Munich treble winner 2013, 13 Brazil caps, retired 2026 at Nice after 754 matches, now FC Bayern reserves head coach.

Dante (networking)

Dante, also called the Dante protocol, is a proprietary audio-video-over-IP platform developed by the Australian company Audinate, distributing digital audio, video, and control over standard Ethernet networks.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri, 1265–1321), Florentine poet of the Divine Comedy (Commedia), exiled in 1302; wrote in Tuscan vernacular, invented terza rima, and shaped the Italian language.

Dante Basco

Dante Basco (Danté Roman Titus Basco, born 1975) is a Filipino-American actor and voice actor known as Rufio in Hook, Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jake Long, and director of The Fabulous Filipino Brothers.

Dante Bichette

Dante Bichette (Alphonse Dante Bichette), MLB outfielder 1988-2001; Rockies Blake Street Bombers star; 1995 .340, 40 HR, 128 RBI, MVP runner-up; career .299, 274 HR, 1,141 RBI; father of Bo Bichette.

Dante C. Youla

Dante C. Youla (1925–2021) was an electrical engineer who spent over six decades at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and created broadband matching theory and the Youla–Kučera parameterization.