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GBH (band)

GBH, also known as Charged GBH, is an English street punk band formed in 1978 in Birmingham, named after the legal term Grievous Bodily Harm; debut album City Baby Attacked by Rats (1982) and influence on Metallica and Slayer distinguish it.

Gboard

Gboard, also known as Google Keyboard, is a virtual keyboard app by Google for Android and iOS, launched in 2016, featuring Glide Typing, voice typing, translation, and over 5 billion downloads.

GBOF V Feeder SCS

GBOF V Feeder SCS is a Luxembourg feeder vehicle that raised $1.13 billion in 2015 for Gilde Buy-Out Fund V, the buyout fund of Rivean Capital.

Gbôklé

Gbôklé (Gbôklê), region in south-west Côte d'Ivoire, capital Sassandra, second department Fresco; 7,225 km², 460,980 inhabitants (2021); cocoa, rubber, oil palm economy within Agro-pole 7 feeding the Port of San Pedro.

Gboko

Gboko is a town and local government area in Benue State, Nigeria, headquarters of the Tiv division since 1932 and seat of the Tor Tiv, the Tiv paramount ruler.

GBP1

GBP1 (guanylate-binding protein 1) is a 67 kDa interferon-inducible dynamin-superfamily GTPase that hydrolyzes GTP to GMP in two steps, coats gram-negative bacteria via LPS, recruits caspase-4 for pyroptosis, and restricts viruses including SARS-CoV-2.

GBS 1900+14

SGR 1900+14 is a soft gamma-ray repeater, a magnetar in the constellation Aquila about 20,000 light years away, best known for the giant gamma-ray flare of August 1998 that ionized Earth's ionosphere.

GBU-12 Paveway II

The GBU-12 Paveway II is an American 500-pound laser-guided bomb that pairs a Paveway II guidance kit with a Mk 82 bomb body, guiding to reflected laser energy.

GBU-28

The GBU-28 is a 5,000-lb laser-guided penetrator bomb, nicknamed the "Bunker Buster." It was built from heavy 8-inch artillery gun tubes and used in the Gulf War.

GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb

The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 250-pound precision-guided glide bomb developed by Boeing for the US Air Force, guided by GPS and first delivered in 2006.

GBU-43/B MOAB

The GBU-43/B MOAB, nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs, is a large GPS-guided US conventional bomb with 18,700 pounds of explosive, first used in Afghanistan in 2017.

GBU-57A/B MOP

The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as Big BLU or MOP, is a 30,000-pound GPS-guided American bomb for destroying deeply buried targets, first used in combat against Iran's nuclear sites in June 2025.

GBU-72

The GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator (A5K) is a 5,000-pound GPS-guided American bunker-buster bomb that replaces the GBU-28, first dropped from an F-15E in 2021 and first used in combat in 2026 against Iranian underground missile facilities.

GC FLU inj

GC FLU inj: WHO-prequalified inactivated split-virion seasonal influenza vaccine family (trivalent and quadrivalent, single- and 10-dose vials) by GC Biopharma, Korea; egg-grown, formaldehyde-inactivated, intramuscular, prequalified 2011-2017.

GC FLU Multi inj.

GC FLU Multi inj. is a WHO-prequalified trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine (split virion, inactivated) by Korea's GC Biopharma, in 10-dose vials, prequalified 7 November 2012, thiomersal-preserved, 28-day opened-vial use.

GC FLU Quadrivalent inj.

GC FLU Quadrivalent inj. (GCFLU Quadrivalent, GC3110A) is GC Biopharma's egg-grown, inactivated split-virion quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine from Korea, WHO-prequalified in 2016–2017, containing 15 µg each of two A and two B strains.

GC FLU Quadrivalent Multi inj.

GC FLU Quadrivalent Multi inj., also written GC Flu Quadrivalent, is a WHO-prequalified inactivated split-virion quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine from GC Biopharma, Korea, prequalified 3 April 2017, in 10-dose thiomersal-preserved vials.

GC Health Assurance Holdings, LLC

GC Health Assurance Holdings, LLC is a Massachusetts-based venture capital fund vehicle managed by General Catalyst, reporting $103.5 million sold in a Form D filing dated December 2020.

Gc Venture

GC Venture is a series of venture capital pooled investment funds, including GC Venture VIII-B and XII, managed by General Catalyst Group Management rather than being a standalone firm.

GC-content

GC-content (G+C content, GC%) is the percentage of G and C bases in a genome or DNA sequence, from ~19% in Plasmodium falciparum to ~75% in Streptomyces; it governs DNA melting temperature, isochores, codon usage, and sequencing bias.

GC-WS trial

GC-WS trial (NCT02424097, GCAmerica-WS): UCSF Phase 4 randomized single-blind trial testing MI Varnish plus MI Paste Plus (CPP-ACP) versus standard fluoride care for white spot lesions in orthodontic patients; 40 enrolled, no significant benefit over 12 months.

GC101 (SMA AAV gene therapy)

GC101 (GC101腺相关病毒注射液) is Beijing GeneCradle's AAV9 gene therapy delivering codon-optimized SMN1 by single intrathecal injection; in Chinese trials for SMA types 1, 2, and 3, with a phase III type 2 trial approved in 2025.

GCAM (integrated assessment model)

GCAM (the Global Change Analysis Model) is an open-source integrated assessment model linking energy, water, agriculture and land use, the economy, and climate, developed at the Joint Global Change Research Institute.

GCD domain

A GCD domain, also known as an HCF domain, is an integral domain in which every pair of elements has a greatest common divisor, a generalization of unique factorization domains.

GCE Advanced Level in Sri Lanka

GCE Advanced Level (A/L, අ.පො.ස උසස් පෙළ) is Sri Lanka's national university-entrance examination run by the Department of Examinations, with selection to free state universities via a district-based Z-score.

GCE Ordinary Level (United Kingdom)

GCE Ordinary Level (O level), the lower tier of the UK's General Certificate of Education, offered 1951-1988 before GCSE replaced it; pass mark 45/100, letter grades from 1975, CSE grade 1 equivalent.

GCF, C-terminal

GCF, C-terminal (InterPro IPR022783; Pfam PF07842, GCFC) is a conserved eukaryotic protein domain of GC-rich sequence DNA-binding factor-like proteins, of unknown function, found in pre-mRNA splicing proteins such as human GCFC2.

GCGR-related hyperglucagonemia

GCGR-related hyperglucagonemia, also called Mahvash disease, is a rare hereditary pancreatic disorder caused by mutations in the glucagon receptor gene, producing extreme hyperglucagonemia, alpha-cell hyperplasia, and neuroendocrine tumors.

GCH1

GCH1 (GTP cyclohydrolase 1, DYT5) is a chromosome 14 gene encoding the rate-limiting enzyme of tetrahydrobiopterin synthesis; heterozygous variants cause Segawa disease (dopa-responsive dystonia), biallelic variants severe deficiency, and rare variants raise Parkinson's disease risk.

GCHQ

GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the UK's signals intelligence, cyber and security agency, founded 1919 as GC&CS, based in Cheltenham, directed since May 2023 by Anne Keast-Butler, and home to the NCSC.