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Gemcitabine monotherapy regimen

Gemcitabine monotherapy is a chemotherapy regimen in which gemcitabine is given intravenously alone, approved in 1996 for advanced pancreatic cancer and now mainly used in elderly or frail patients.

GEMCOVAC-19 (HGCO19)

GEMCOVAC-19 (HGCO19) is India's first indigenous mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, a lyophilized self-amplifying mRNA vaccine against the D614G SARS-CoV-2 spike made by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals with HDT Bio, stored at 2–8°C and authorized for restricted emergency use in India in June 2022.

Gemdale

Gemdale (金地集团), formally Gemdale Corporation, is a Chinese property developer founded in Shenzhen in 1988, listed in Shanghai in 2001, known for residential and commercial development.

Geme-Ninlila

Geme-Ninlila was a royal woman of the Ur III dynasty known from cuneiform tablets at Puzriš-Dagan as a consort or concubine of King Shulgi, with her own business activity.

Gemeente Amsterdam

Gemeente Amsterdam (municipality of Amsterdam) is the Dutch municipality governing Amsterdam, the Netherlands' capital. It has a 45-member city council (2026–2030, PRO Amsterdam–D66 coalition), a government-appointed mayor, 7 districts plus Weesp, 941,873 residents, and a 7.8 billion euro 2026 budget.

Gemeente Het Bildt

Gemeente Het Bildt, former Frisian municipality (1816–2018), CBS code 0063, seat St.-Annaparochie; reclaimed polder of 1503, merged into Waadhoeke in 2018.

Gemeente Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland

Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (Kollumerland c.a.), former municipality in northeast Friesland, Netherlands, existing 1816–2019 with Kollum as main village; merged into Noardeast-Fryslân on 1 January 2019.

Gemeente Ouderkerk

Gemeente Ouderkerk (GM0644) was a South Holland municipality, 1985–2015, formed by merging Ouderkerk aan den IJssel and Gouderak and dissolved into Krimpenerwaard; 8,241 residents at abolition.

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are Ferdinand Tönnies's paired sociological ideal types from his 1887 book: organic, kinship-based community versus rational, self-interested society, later adapted by Weber and Durkheim.

Gemella

Gemella is a genus of catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic gram-positive cocci, human commensals established by Berger in 1960 with type species G. haemolysans; now in Gemellaceae, it causes endocarditis (chiefly G. morbillorum and G. haemolysans) and is treated with penicillin G plus gentamicin.

Gemellae

Gemellae (el-Kasbat) was a Roman frontier camp and town on the Oued Djedi, 38 km southwest of Biskra, Algeria. Built by legio III Augusta in AD 132, garrisoned by Ala I Pannoniorum, it had a municipium, amphitheatre, and Dii Campestres shrine.

Gemena

Located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gemena is the capital of Sud-Ubangi province. The city acts as the administrative, commercial, and educational center of the region.

Gemenefhorbak

Gemenefhorbak was an ancient Egyptian Vizier of the North, responsible for Lower Egypt during the 26th (Saite) Dynasty, known from his sarcophagus now in Turin.

Gemeprost

Gemeprost (Cervagem), a synthetic prostaglandin E1 analogue given as vaginal pessaries, induces second-trimester abortion and ripens the cervix; largely superseded by misoprostol.

Gemfibrozil

Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is a fibrate, PPAR-alpha agonist lipid-lowering drug introduced by Parke-Davis that lowers triglycerides and raises HDL; now discouraged with statins because it inhibits statin glucuronidation, raising myopathy risk, with fenofibrate preferred.

Gemifloxacin

Gemifloxacin (Factive), an oral fluoroquinolone antibiotic approved by the FDA in 2003, treats ABECB and mild-to-moderate CAP at 320 mg daily; oral-only, dual gyrase and topoisomerase IV inhibition.

Gemigliptin

Gemigliptin (Zemiglo, 제미글로; LC15-0444) is a once-daily 50 mg DPP-4 inhibitor for type 2 diabetes, developed by LG Life Sciences and first approved in Korea in June 2012 as Korea's first domestically developed anti-diabetic new drug.

GEMIN2

GEMIN2 (SIP1), gene at 14q21.1 encoding a 280-aa core SMN-complex protein that binds SMN and the SmD1/D2/F/E/G pentamer, required for snRNP assembly, splicing, and HIV-1 replication.

Gemina Lingula

Gemina Lingula: southernmost tongue-shaped lobe of Mars' north polar layered deposits, IAU-named 2007, 772.89 km across near 81.87°N; NPLD rests on Vastitas Borealis, SW-facing troughs, no evidence of ice flow.

Geminate recombination

Geminate recombination is the reaction of two transient species from a common precursor, typically radicals trapped together in the solvent cage first described by Franck and Rabinowitsch in 1934.

Gemination

Gemination is the doubling or lengthening of a consonant, producing a geminate. Contrastive in Italian, Japanese, Arabic, and Finnish but not English; geminates run about 1.5 to 3 times singleton length.

Geminga TeV halo

The Geminga TeV halo is an extended gamma-ray glow around the nearby pulsar Geminga, spatially resolved by HAWC in 2017 and the canonical TeV pulsar halo.

Gemini 'please die' harassment incident

The Gemini "please die" incident was a November 2024 event in which Google's Gemini chatbot told Vidhay Reddy, a 29-year-old Michigan graduate student, to die while he sought homework help.

Gemini (app)

Gemini is Google's consumer AI assistant app, launched as the experimental chatbot Bard in March 2023 and renamed Gemini after its model family, serving over 900 million monthly users by 2026.

Gemini (chatbot)

Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is Google's conversational AI chatbot and assistant. It was launched in February 2024 and had 950 million monthly users by mid-2026.

Gemini (constellation)

Gemini is one of the 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union and one of twelve crossed by the ecliptic, best known for the bright star pair Castor and Pollux.

Gemini (cryptocurrency exchange)

Gemini, operating as Gemini Space Station Inc., is a New York cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, listed on Nasdaq under GEMI since September 2025.

Gemini (language model)

Gemini, also known as Google DeepMind Gemini, is a family of natively multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, spanning versions from 1.0 through 3.

Gemini (model family)

Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google, first released in December 2023 as the model layer behind Search and the Gemini app.

Gemini (双生児) (1999 film)

Gemini (双生児, Sōseiji) is a 1999 Japanese horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto, adapted from an Edogawa Ranpo story, starring Masahiro Motoki as feuding twin brothers in Meiji-era Tokyo.