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Gen‐Sheng Feng
Gen-Sheng Feng (冯根生) is a molecular biologist known for discovering the signaling enzyme Shp2 and showing it can suppress liver cancer rather than promote it.
Gen:Lock
gen:LOCK is an American computer-animated mecha sci-fi series created by Gray Haddock at Rooster Teeth, starring Michael B. Jordan, two seasons (2019, 2021), later an HBO Max original.
Gen.G (젠지)
Gen.G (젠지, Generation Gaming) is a global esports organization formed in 2018 from KSV's acquisition of Samsung Galaxy's 2017 Worlds-winning League of Legends roster; it fields LCK, Valorant, PUBG, and racing teams and runs the Gen.G Global Academy.
Gen'ichi Katō
Gen'ichi Katō (加藤元一) was a Japanese physiologist at Keio University who argued from 1923 that nerve impulses cross narcotised regions without decrement, and trained Ichiji Tasaki.
Gen'yōsha (玄洋社)
Gen'yōsha (玄洋社, Dark Ocean Society), founded 1881 in Fukuoka by Hiraoka Kōtarō and Toyama Mitsuru, was Japan's pioneering ultranationalist, Pan-Asianist society, parent of the Kokuryūkai, dissolved by GHQ in 1946.
Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands (1930–2024), American actress, wife and muse of director John Cassavetes; Oscar-nominated for A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, Emmy winner, honorary Academy Award recipient.
Genale
Genale (Ganale, Genale Dorya) is a river rising in Ethiopia's Mendebo Mountains, flowing southeast to Dolo on the Somalia border where it joins the Dawa to form the Juba; it drains Ethiopia's third-largest basin, about 171,000 km², with 5.8–6 billion m³ annual flow and the 254 MW Genale Dawa III dam.
GenapSys
GenapSys was a Redwood City, California biotechnology startup, founded in 2010, that developed a small, low-cost electronic DNA sequencing platform and went defunct in 2022.
Genaro García Luna
Genaro García Luna, Mexico's secretary of public security 2006-2012 under Calderón, was convicted in Brooklyn in 2023 of Sinaloa Cartel bribery and sentenced to 460 months and a $2 million fine, with billions in Florida civil judgments.
Genaveh-Kharg Oil Pipelines
The Genaveh-Kharg oil pipelines are a system of five subsea pipelines carrying crude oil from Genaveh in Bushehr Province, Iran, to the Kharg Island export terminal.
GenBank
GenBank, also known as NCBI GenBank, is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated public archive of nucleotide sequences created in 1982 that exchanges data daily with ENA and DDBJ.
Genbō
Genbō (玄昉) was a Nara-period Hossō Buddhist monk who returned from Tang China in 735 with about 5,000 scrolls and died in exile in 746.
Genbridge Capital
GenBridge Capital is a Beijing-based private equity firm founded in 2015 by former JD.com and TPG executives, investing USD 20-40 million in consumer companies in China.
Genbun itchi
Genbun itchi (言文一致, "unification of speech and writing") was a late 19th-century Japanese movement to replace archaic written forms with a style closer to the spoken vernacular.
Genbun recoinage
The Genbun recoinage (元文の改鋳) was a 1736 debasement of Tokugawa shogunate gold and silver coinage, ordered by shogun Yoshimune to end deflation; the new coins then circulated stably for about 80 years.
Genç Kalemler
Genç Kalemler ("Young Pens") was a Turkish literary magazine published in Selanik from about 1910 to 1912, best known for launching the Yeni Lisan movement.
GenCast
GenCast is a machine-learning weather forecasting model from Google DeepMind that produces probabilistic ensemble forecasts of global weather up to 15 days ahead, described in Nature in December 2024.
Genchi genbutsu
Genchi genbutsu (現地現物) is a Toyota management principle meaning "go and see for yourself": decision makers confirm facts through personal observation at the source rather than relying on reports.
GENCI
GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif) is a French public research infrastructure, created in 2007, that acquires and allocates national supercomputing, data, and AI resources for research.
Gençlerbirliği S.K.
Gençlerbirliği Spor Kulübü, Ankara football club founded 14 March 1923 at Taş Mektep; two Turkish championships (1941, 1946), two Turkish Cups (1987, 2001), record ten Ankara League titles, and a 2003-04 UEFA Cup run eliminating Blackburn Rovers, Sporting Lisbon, and Parma.
Genco Shipping & Trading
Genco Shipping & Trading Limited is a New York City drybulk shipowner, incorporated in the Marshall Islands in 2004 and listed on the NYSE as GNK.
Gendai haiku
Gendai haiku (現代俳句, "contemporary haiku") is a current of Japanese haiku free from the traditional season word and 5-7-5 form, using colloquial language and free rhythm for modern, personal, and social themes.
Gendai tanka
Gendai tanka (現代短歌, "contemporary tanka") is the Japanese lyric verse of the present era, written in the tanka form of five phrases of 5-7-5-7-7 morae, 31 syllables in all.
Gendarmerie
Gendarmerie: police forces with formal military status, from the French gens d'armes. Descends from the 1339 maréchaussée, renamed Gendarmerie nationale in 1791; typical of continental Europe, not Anglo-Saxon states.
Gendarmerie d'Haïti
The Gendarmerie d'Haïti was a constabulary force created in 1916 during the US occupation of Haiti, commanded by U.S. Marines and renamed Garde d'Haïti in 1928.
Gendenwitha Vallis
Gendenwitha Vallis is a valley, or channel system, on Venus about 900 km across, located in the southern hemisphere and named from the Iroquois word for the planet Venus.
Gender
Gender is the set of socially constructed characteristics, norms, and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl, or boy. These concepts vary across societies.
Gender and development
Gender and development (GAD) is a development approach focused on socially constructed gender relations, evolving from WID and WAD phases, anchored in the 1995 Beijing Platform, and tracked through SDG 5 indicators.
Gender bender
Gender bender: informal term, sometimes pejorative, for a person or performance that bends expected gender roles through androgyny, cross-dressing, or costume; also a manga genre of sex-changing characters such as Ranma ½.
Gender bias on Wikipedia
Gender bias on Wikipedia covers the male-dominated editor community (roughly 13-16% women historically, 87% male in a 2020 survey) and content gaps: only about 19% of biographies are of women, with disparities in length, images, titles, and deletion review.