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Gene therapy
Gene therapy modifies a person's genes to treat or cure disease, using viral vectors, plasmid DNA, gene editing, or modified cells. First US use 1990 at NIH; 40 products approved globally by Q1 2026, including Casgevy, the first CRISPR therapy.
Gene therapy of the human retina
Gene therapy of the human retina: AAV-mediated delivery of therapeutic genes to treat inherited retinal diseases and neovascular disorders. Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec, 2017) is the first approved product, for biallelic RPE65 retinal dystrophy.
Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney (1920–1991), American actress and 20th Century-Fox star of Laura (1944) and Oscar-nominated Leave Her to Heaven (1945); married Oleg Cassini, treated for depression, memoir Self-Portrait.
Gene Toombs
Gene Toombs is an American business executive who led MiTek Industries, a Missouri supplier of roof-truss connectors and software, and arranged its 2001 sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
Gene transfer agent protein-like
Gene transfer agent protein-like (Pfam PF14288) proteins belong to gene transfer agents, phage-like particles of bacteria and archaea that package host genome fragments, modeled by Rhodobacter capsulatus RcGTA.
Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney (James Joseph Tunney, 1897-1978), American heavyweight boxing champion 1926-1928, "The Fighting Marine," who beat Jack Dempsey twice, including the 1927 Long Count Fight, and retired 65-1-1.
Gene Tyson
Gene W. Tyson is an Australian microbial ecologist and bioinformatician at Queensland University of Technology, known for metagenomics and for CheckM, a widely used genome-quality tool.
Gene Vincent
Gene Vincent (Vincent Eugene Craddock, 1935–1971), Norfolk, Virginia rockabilly singer of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (US No. 7, 1956), Blue Caps frontman, Eddie Cochran's 1960 tour mate, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee 1998.
Gene Ween
Gene Ween (Gener), born Aaron Freeman, is the American singer and co-founder, with Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), of the genre-hopping band Ween; he retired the name in 2012 for solo albums, then resumed it.
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman, 1933-2016), American comic actor of Willy Wonka, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein; Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor collaborator, two-time Oscar nominee, later memoirist and novelist.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe, full name Gene Rodman Wolfe, was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for the four-volume The Book of the New Sun.
Gene Wood
Gene Wood (Eugene Edward Wood, 1925–2004), American game show announcer and host, the voice of Goodson-Todman shows including Family Feud, Card Sharks, and Password Plus; also hosted Beat the Clock.
Gene Wu
Gene Wu is an American politician, attorney, and Texas House Democratic Minority Leader representing District 137 in Southwest Houston since 2012, formerly a Harris County prosecutor.
Gene Yaw
Gene Yaw is an American Republican politician from Loyalsock Township who represents the 23rd district in the Pennsylvania Senate and chairs its Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.
Gene-for-gene relationship
Gene-for-gene relationship: Flor's model of plant disease resistance, from flax and Melampsora lini rust, in which a host R gene and a matching pathogen Avr gene together trigger resistance; loss of either permits disease.
Gene‐Wei Li
Gene-Wei Li is a quantitative molecular biologist at MIT who studies how bacterial genomes encode precise protein levels; he joined MIT in 2015 and became an HHMI investigator in 2024.
Gene–environment interaction analysis
Gene–environment interaction analysis is a set of statistical methods testing whether an environmental exposure's effect on disease differs across genotypes, using case-control, case-only, and genome-wide designs.
Genealogical DNA test
Genealogical DNA test: consumer (DTC) ancestry testing from saliva, via SNP genotyping against reference panels like AncestryDNA's 71,306-sample, 88-region panel; estimates ethnicity, finds relatives, supports forensic genetic genealogy.
Genealogy
Genealogy, the study of family ancestry and descent, spans paper, microfilm, digital, and DNA eras; now a billion-dollar hobby using consumer DNA tests and investigative genetic genealogy in criminal cases.
Genealogy of Jesus
The genealogy of Jesus is given in two differing New Testament lists, Matthew tracing descent from Abraham through David and Luke extending it to Adam and God.
Genealogy of the Ankhefensekhmet
The Genealogy of the Ankhefensekhmet, also known as the Stela of Ankhefensekhmet, is a late 22nd Dynasty limestone relief from Memphis recording over 50 generations of a priest's ancestors.
Geneformer
Geneformer is an attention-based deep learning model for single-cell biology, pretrained on about 30 million human transcriptomes by Christina Theodoris and colleagues, published in Nature in 2023.
Geneina
Geneina (El Geneina) is the capital of West Darfur, Sudan, a former Masalit Sultanate capital of about 540,000 people; RSF forces killed 10,000–15,000 there in 2023 and expelled over 570,000 Massalit to Chad.
Geneious
Geneious is a commercial desktop bioinformatics suite for molecular biology and sequence analysis, first released in 2005 by Biomatters of Auckland, New Zealand and now part of Dotmatics.
Genel Energy
Genel Energy is a London-listed oil and gas company formed in 2011, with production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and exploration in Oman and Somaliland.
Genelba power station
Genelba power station (Central Termoeléctrica Genelba, CTGEBA) is a natural gas-fired thermal plant in Marcos Paz, Argentina, operating since 1999 with an installed capacity of 1,253 MW.
Genelia D'Souza
Genelia D'Souza, also Genelia Deshmukh, Indian actress born 1987 in Mumbai, active in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema; known for Bommarillu (2006), married Riteish Deshmukh in 2012, comeback with Ved (2022) and Junior (2025).
GeneMind Biosciences (真迈生物)
GeneMind Biosciences (真迈生物), also known as RealBio, is a Chinese gene-sequencing company founded in Shenzhen in 2012, known for the GenoCare 1600 single-molecule sequencer approved for clinical use in 2022.
Genene Jones
Genene Ann Jones (born 1950), Texas pediatric nurse nicknamed the "Death Shift" nurse, convicted in 1984 of murdering Chelsea McClellan and in 2020 pleaded guilty to killing Joshua Sawyer; suspected in dozens of infant deaths.
Genentech
Genentech, founded 1976 by Robert Swanson and Herbert Boyer in South San Francisco, is the founding biotechnology company; it made the first recombinant DNA drug (human insulin, 1982) and Herceptin, and became wholly owned by Roche in 2009 for $46.8 billion.