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Egbert of York
Egbert of York (Ecgberht) was Archbishop of York from 735 until his death in 766, a royal kinsman who founded the school and library that trained Alcuin.
Egbert van Kampen
Egbert van Kampen (Egbert Rudolf van Kampen) was a Dutch mathematician, known for the van Kampen theorem, who worked at Johns Hopkins and died in 1942.
Egbert Zojer
Egbert Zojer (born 1972) is an Austrian computational physicist at Graz University of Technology who works on the electrostatic design of materials and atomistic modeling of organic materials.
Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist, and pianist born in 1947 in Carmo, Rio de Janeiro state, known for blending choro with classical training and for ECM albums like Dança das Cabeças.
Ege T. Kavalali
Ege T. Kavalali, also known as Ege Kavalali, is a Turkish-born neuroscientist and Chair of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, known for establishing spontaneous neurotransmission as a distinct signaling pathway.
Egebergs ærespris
Egebergs ærespris (Kabinetskammerherre Egebergs ærespris for alsidig idrett), Norway's highest sports honor, founded 1919 by Ferdinand Egeberg; bronze statuette by Magnus Vigrestad for athletes excelling in two or more sports.
Egemin Automation
Egemin Automation was a Belgian warehouse automation company in Zwijndrecht that built automated guided vehicle systems, acquired by the KION Group in 2015 for €72.5 million.
eGenesis
eGenesis is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2016 from George Church's Harvard research, that develops gene-edited pig kidneys for transplanting into kidney-failure patients.
Eger V. Murphree
Eger V. Murphree (1898–1962) was an American chemical engineer who co-invented fluid catalytic cracking, the refinery process that still makes much of the world's gasoline, and led Exxon's central research for 15 years.
Egeria
Egeria (ODPi Egeria) is an LF AI & Data open source project, contributed by IBM and ING in 2018, providing an Apache-2.0 open metadata type system, OMAG server platform, cohorts, and integration connectors for cross-tool metadata exchange and governance.
Egeria densa
Egeria densa (Brazilian waterweed, anacharis, Elodea densa), Hydrocharitaceae submerged aquatic plant native to South America, aquarium escape, male-only invasive populations, whorls of 4–8 serrated leaves, clogs waterways.
Egersund
Egersund (Egersunds Idrettsklubb, EIK, Tigrene), Norwegian multi-sports club from Egersund, Rogaland, founded 1919; football side promoted to OBOS-ligaen 2023, 4th in 2024, plays at B&G Parken.
Egerton Capital
Egerton Capital is a London hedge fund founded in 1994 by John Armitage and William Bollinger, a Tiger Management offshoot managing about $20 billion in global equities.
EGF-like domain
EGF-like domain: a 30–50 amino acid extracellular protein module with six conserved cysteines in three disulfide bonds (1–3, 2–4, 5–6), found in growth factors, Notch, coagulation factors, and fibrillin; calcium-binding cbEGF subtype; Pfam PF00008, InterPro IPR000742.
EGFL7
EGFL7 (VE-statin), a secreted 278-amino-acid endothelial protein with two EGF-like domains, regulates vascular tubulogenesis and Notch signaling; its gene hosts miR-126 and it is a biomarker in cancer, stroke, MS, and preeclampsia.
EGFR-AS1
EGFR-AS1 (EGFR antisense RNA 1) is a human long non-coding RNA transcribed opposite the EGFR gene that raises EGFR output and drives tumor proliferation, invasion, and treatment resistance.
EGFR-TKI therapy
EGFR-TKI therapy is drug treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors that block the epidermal growth factor receptor, used mainly for EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer, especially in Asian patients.
EGFR-TKIs trial
EGFR-TKIs trial (NCT02646020): Chinese phase 2 trial comparing aprepitant, an NK1 antagonist, with desloratadine for EGFR-TKI-induced pruritus in NSCLC; aprepitant gave higher, faster response (57.9% vs 28.0% at week 1) with mild adverse events.
Egg
Egg: the female reproductive cell (ovum) of animals, also the shelled reproductive body of birds and reptiles. Amniotic egg, with four extraembryonic membranes, evolved 300-360 million years ago, enabling land reproduction.
Egg Bowl
Egg Bowl: annual Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State football game, officially the Battle for the Golden Egg. First played 1901; trophy created 1927 after a fan brawl; named by the Clarion-Ledger in 1978; Ole Miss leads the series.
Egg case (Chondrichthyes)
Egg case (Chondrichthyes), also called mermaid's purse: the keratin capsule laid by oviparous sharks, skates, and chimaeras, usually holding one yolk-nourished embryo; skate cases with horns form dense nurseries where embryos may develop up to five years.
Egg cell
Egg cell (ovum): the large, non-motile female gamete, about 0.15 mm in humans, that fuses with sperm at fertilization; distinguished from the oocyte, blocks polyspermy via cortical granules, and can be preserved by vitrification.
Egg coffee
Egg coffee (cà phê trứng), also called ca phe trung, is a Hanoi drink invented in 1946 by bartender Nguyễn Văn Giang: egg yolk whipped with condensed milk floated on strong phin robusta coffee, with raw-egg safety caveats.
Egg cream
Egg cream: a New York City soda-fountain drink of milk, seltzer, and chocolate syrup with a foamy head, containing no egg and no cream; tied to Jewish immigrant culture and Fox's U-Bet syrup.
Egg donation
Egg donation is a fertility treatment in which a woman donates eggs fertilized in vitro and transferred to a recipient, who carries the pregnancy and gives birth.
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤)
Egg drop soup (蛋花汤, Dànhuā tāng, egg flower soup) is a Chinese soup of beaten egg streamed into hot, often starch-thickened broth, setting into floating ribbons; a home staple and American Chinese menu starter with tomato and seaweed variants.
Egg foo young
Egg foo young (芙蓉蛋) is a Cantonese omelette dish turned Chinese-American takeout staple: egg patties with bean sprouts, onion, and pork, shrimp, or chicken, served with soy-based brown gravy; related to Indonesian fu yung hai and Dutch foe yong hai.
Egg harvesting automation
Egg harvesting automation is the use of egg belts, cross conveyors, and packers to collect and grade eggs from laying hens with minimal manual handling.
Egg incubation
Egg incubation, natural (broody hen) or artificial (incubator), develops bird embryos under controlled temperature, humidity, ventilation, and turning; chicken eggs hatch in 21 days, and hatchery versus on-farm hatching affects chick welfare.
Egg Island (landform)
Egg Island (landform): name shared by many small islands worldwide, e.g. Antarctic Trinity Peninsula, a dozen in Alaska (Russian Ostrov Yaichnoy, 1792), plus examples in Canada, the Bahamas, and California, named for eggs, shape, or grouped features.