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Gcina Mhlophe

Gcina Mhlophe, full name Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe, is a South African storyteller, author, playwright, and anti-apartheid activist, born in Durban in 1958, known for reviving oral storytelling.

GCIRS 16

GCIRS 16, also written IRS 16, is a complex of about 20 luminous blue helium stars in the central parsec of the Milky Way, near the black hole Sagittarius A.

GCIRS 7

GCIRS 7, also written IRS 7, is a pulsating M1 red supergiant at the center of the Milky Way, 5.5 arcseconds north of Sagittarius A, the central black hole.

Oct 20, 2026

GCKR (glucokinase regulator, GKRP) is a human gene at 2p23.3 encoding the glucokinase regulatory protein that inhibits liver glucokinase; its variants rs1260326 and rs780094 raise triglycerides and NAFLD risk while lowering fasting glucose.

GCl 17

GCl 17, also known as Palomar 4, is a sparse, low-density globular cluster in the outer halo of the Milky Way, in Ursa Major, about 350,000 light-years away.

Sep 19, 2026

GCL Group

GCL Group (协鑫集团) is a Chinese clean-energy group founded in 1990 by Zhu Gongshan, organized around silicon materials for the solar industry, including granular polysilicon.

Gcm Grosvenor Advance

GCM Grosvenor Advance is a private equity fund-of-funds platform of Chicago alternative asset manager GCM Grosvenor, investing in primary funds and co-investments with diverse-owned and woman-owned managers; its first fund closed in 2021.

Gco V Private Investors

GCO V Private Investors is a pair of 2023 venture capital feeder funds, a Delaware LLC and a Cayman Islands L.P., administered by J.P. Morgan Private Investments.

GCSF/MGF

GCSF/MGF (InterPro IPR040117) is a protein family within the IL-6 superfamily grouping granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and avian myelomonocytic growth factor (MGF), four-helical cytokines of about 170-180 residues with four conserved cysteines, acting in myeloid hematopoiesis.

GCT Semiconductor

GCT Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company founded by Kyeongho Lee in 1998 in San Jose, California, designing 5G and 4G wireless chipsets and publicly traded on the NYSE as GCTS.

GD 153

GD 153 is a hot, hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarf about 68.6 parsecs from the Sun, one of three primary standards anchoring the Hubble Space Telescope's absolute flux calibration.

GD 356

GD 356, also WD 1639+537, is a cool, magnetic white dwarf in Draco whose hydrogen lines show only in emission; it remained the only such star for 35 years.

Sep 19, 2026

GD 47

GD 47 is the stage name of Gagandeep Singh, a Punjabi Sikh rapper from Jalandhar, Punjab, who broke out on MTV Hustle 2.0 in 2022 and records with Def Jam India.

GD 71

GD 71 (WD 0459+158) is a hot, hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarf in Taurus, cataloged in 1965 and one of the three primary standards for Hubble's absolute flux scale.

Oct 10, 2026

GD Power Development

GD Power Development is a major Chinese power generator founded in 1992 and headquartered in Beijing, listed in Shanghai as a subsidiary of China Energy Investment.

GD-1

GD-1 is a long, thin stellar stream in the Milky Way's halo, discovered in 2006 and believed to be the debris of a disrupted globular cluster.

Gd2Zr2O7 thermal barrier coating

Gd2Zr2O7 pyrochlore thermal barrier coating, gadolinium zirconate (GZO), is a ceramic top-coat material studied for about two decades as a higher-temperature alternative to yttria-stabilized zirconia on gas turbine components.

Gdańsk

Gdańsk (Danzig), Baltic port city in northern Poland, largest city of Polish Pomerania and part of the Tricity conurbation with Sopot and Gdynia; about 488,000 residents, major container port, Free City of Danzig between the world wars.

Gdańsk Agreement

The Gdańsk Agreement (Porozumienie Gdańskie), also called the August Agreement, was signed on 31 August 1980 between communist Poland's government and striking workers led by Lech Wałęsa.

Gdańsk Bay

Gdańsk Bay (Zatoka Gdańska), a southeastern bay of the Baltic Sea in the Gdańsk Basin, receives the Vistula, hosts the ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia, includes shallow Puck Bay behind the Hel Peninsula, and averages 70 m deep.

Gdańsk Crane

The Gdańsk Crane (Żuraw, Krantor) is a 1442–1444 medieval port crane and water gate on the Motława in Gdańsk, Poland, the oldest and largest of its kind in Europe, treadwheel-powered, war-destroyed, rebuilt, and renovated 2020–2024.

Gdańsk grain trade

The Gdańsk grain trade (Handel zbożowy w Gdańsku) was the export of Polish grain through the port of Gdańsk on the Vistula, chiefly to the Netherlands, from the 15th century.

Gdańsk Shipyard

Gdańsk Shipyard (Stocznia Gdańska), known as the Lenin Shipyard from 1967 to 1989, is a Polish shipyard where the 1980 strikes led by Lech Wałęsa founded Solidarity.

Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny

Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny (Oliwa Zoo), opened 1 May 1954 in Gdańsk's Leśny Młyn Valley; 125 ha, one of Poland's largest zoos, over 1,000 animals of ~200 species, EAZA and WAZA member, only Polish zoo with orangutans.

GDB study

GDB study (Generic Database, NCT00063063): NICHD Neonatal Research Network registry of very low birth weight and extremely preterm infants, begun 1987, over 91,000 enrollees, basis of 200+ publications and 27 clinical trials.

GDB-17

GDB-17 is a computer-generated chemical database enumerating 166.4 billion possible organic molecules of up to 17 heavy atoms, reported by the Reymond group in 2012.

GDC study

GDC study, also called German Diabetes Study (GDS), NCT01055093: prospective observational cohort at the German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, following up to 2,000 adults with newly diagnosed type 1 or type 2 diabetes, aged 18-69, with metabolic, immunological, and organ phenotyping.