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HCL

HCL is an Indian technology group founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976, best known through HCL Technologies (HCLTech), a Noida-headquartered provider of IT services and software.

HCL Group

HCL Group is an Indian technology conglomerate founded in 1976 by Shiv Nadar and five colleagues, now spanning technology, healthcare, and talent management with over $14.8 billion in annual revenue.

HCL Ocean Club

HCL Océan Club is a surf, bodyboard, and bodysurf association and surf school in Lacanau, Gironde, France, founded by Cédric Grèze, declared in 2019, running a surf camp, competitions, and beach cleanups.

HCLTech

HCLTech, formally HCL Technologies Limited, is an Indian multinational IT services and consulting company headquartered in Noida; founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976, it is India's third-largest IT services firm, operating in 60 countries.

Hcm

HCM, publicly known as Human Capital, is a San Francisco multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Armaan Ali and Baris Akis, investing in fintech and defense technology.

HCM S14A LP

HCM S14A LP is a Delaware limited partnership venture capital fund formed in 2023 in San Francisco and managed by Human Capital Investment Management LLC.

HCMV protein UL42

HCMV protein UL42, human cytomegalovirus immune-evasion protein, negative regulator of the cGAS/MITA (STING) innate antiviral response; its deletion raises type I interferon production. Distinct from HSV-1 UL42 processivity factor; HCMV's polymerase processivity factor is UL44.

HCN channels

HCN channels, or hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channels, are ion channels in heart and brain cell membranes, known as pacemaker channels for the funny current that sets the cardiac rhythm.

HCN4

HCN4 (hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated potassium channel 4, 15q24.1) is the slowest-activating HCN pacemaker channel, carrying about 80% of the sinoatrial funny current If; mutations cause sick sinus syndrome 2 and left ventricular noncompaction, and ivabradine blocks it.

HCRT

HCRT (hypocretin neuropeptide precursor, OX, PPOX) is the human 17q21.2 gene encoding prepro-orexin, the precursor of orexin-A and orexin-B, whose loss causes narcolepsy type 1.

HCRX Holdings, L.P.

HCRX Holdings, L.P. is a Delaware fund vehicle of HealthCare Royalty Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut firm that buys biopharma royalties and provides structured credit, formed in 2021.

HCS (traffic software)

HCS (Highway Capacity Software) is a traffic analysis program implementing the Highway Capacity Manual, developed by the McTrans Center at the University of Florida since 1987.

HCSVD-TRC study

HCSVD-TRC (NCT06512376) is a Beijing Tiantan Hospital observational patient registry of hereditary cerebral small vessel disease, led by Yilong Wang, enrolling 100 gene-confirmed or suspected hCSVD patients for 5-year genetic, MRI, and clinical follow-up, 2022 to 2027.

HCT 116

HCT 116 (HCT116, HCT-116), a human colorectal carcinoma cell line from a male colon cancer patient, established 1981 by Brattain; MSI-high, KRAS G13D, wild-type TP53, ATCC CCL-247, NCI-60 member.

HCT 15

HCT-15 (HCT 15, CVCL_0292, ATCC CCL-225) is a human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line from a male Dukes C patient, MSI-high, KRAS G13D, quasidiploid, genetically identical in origin to DLD-1, HCT-8, and HRT-18.

HCT 8

HCT 8 (HCT-8, HRT-18) is a human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line from a 67-year-old male, MSI-positive with APC, KRAS G13D, and PIK3CA mutations, tumorigenic in nude mice, and genetically identical to DLD-1, HCT-15, and HRT-18.

HCVC

HCVC is a Paris-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in hardtech and deep-tech startups in Europe and North America, grown from the Hardware Club community.

HD 100546

HD 100546 is a young Herbig Be star about 355 light-years from Earth whose large protoplanetary disk shows some of the clearest signs of planets forming inside it.

HD 10069b

HD 10069b, also known as WASP-18b, is one of the most massive known hot Jupiters, a gas giant orbiting the star HD 10069 in Phoenix every 0.94 days, discovered in 2009.

HD 10180

HD 10180 is a Sun-like G1 V star 127 light-years away in Hydrus with six confirmed radial-velocity planets (c through h, 12 to 65 Earth masses) found by HARPS in 2010, plus unconfirmed candidates b and two Tuomi signals.

HD 101930

HD 101930 is a K-type star about 30 parsecs away with the confirmed Saturn-mass gas giant HD 101930 b, found by HARPS radial velocity in 2005, period 70.5 days, 0.3 AU, plus stellar companion HD 101930 B.

HD 102117

HD 102117 (HIP 57291) is a metal-rich G6 V star about 39.6 pc away with one confirmed planet, HD 102117 b (Uklun b), a 0.17-Jupiter-mass gas giant on a 20.8-day, 0.15-AU orbit found by radial velocity in 2005.

HD 102329

HD 102329 (HIP 57467) is a K0 III giant star about 217 parsecs away in Leo with two radial-velocity gas giants: HD 102329 b (778-day period, about 6-8 Jupiter masses, found 2011) and HD 102329 c (1123 days, 1.5 Jupiter masses, found 2016).

HD 102365

HD 102365, also cataloged as HR 4523 and Gliese 442 A, is a nearby Sun-like star in Centaurus about 30 light-years from Earth that hosts a doubtful candidate planet.

HD 10307

HD 10307, also HR 483, is a Sun-like G-type star about 41 light-years away in Andromeda with a red dwarf companion orbiting every 19.5 years.

HD 103095

HD 103095, better known as Groombridge 1830, is a metal-poor yellow-orange subdwarf star in Ursa Major about 30 light-years away, cataloged by Stephen Groombridge in the early nineteenth century.

HD 104067

HD 104067 is a nearby K2V dwarf star about 20.4 parsecs away hosting gas giant HD 104067 b (55.9-day orbit), Neptune-like HD 104067 c (13.9 days), and the tidally heated TESS candidate TOI-6713.01.

HD 104985

HD 104985 is a G9 III giant star in Camelopardalis hosting HD 104985 b, a 5.5-6.3 Jupiter-mass gas giant in a 199-day, 0.7-0.8 AU orbit, discovered in 2003 by radial velocity at Okayama, the first planet found around a G-type giant.

HD 106252

HD 106252 (HIP 59610) is a G0 V star 38 parsecs away hosting HD 106252 b, a gas giant of 10 Jupiter masses on a 1,535-day, eccentric (e=0.48) orbit at 2.655 AU, found by radial velocity in 2002.

HD 106315

HD 106315 is a bright F5 dwarf star about 109 parsecs away hosting two K2-discovered transiting planets: super-Earth HD 106315 b (9.55-day period) and warm Neptune HD 106315 c (21.06 days), plus an unconfirmed third body, with water detected in c's atmosphere.