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Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase
Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase, also called delta-6-desaturase or FADS2 (EC 1.14.19.3), is an enzyme that inserts a cis double bond at carbon 6 of linoleoyl-CoA to form gamma-linolenoyl-CoA, the rate-limiting first step of essential fatty acid and HUFA biosynthesis.
Linoleum
Linoleum is a resilient floor covering made from linseed oil, cork, and other natural materials, patented by Frederick Walton in 1860 and widely used through the 1960s.
Linoproductus
Linoproductus, extinct productid brachiopod genus named by Chao in 1927, type species Productus cora; thin finely ribbed spiny shells, cosmopolitan, Late Carboniferous to Permian, family Linoproductidae.
Linos J. Jacovides
Linos J. Jacovides is an electrical engineer who led General Motors' Electrovair electric-vehicle program, headed Delphi Research Labs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
Linotype machine
Linotype machine, also spelled Lynotype: Ottmar Mergenthaler's 1884 hot-metal line-caster that composes brass matrices on a 90-character keyboard and casts whole justified lines as lead-antimony-tin slugs, displacing hand setting from 1886 until the 1970s.
LINPACK
LINPACK is a computer performance benchmark that measures how fast a system solves dense linear equations, best known as the basis of the TOP500 supercomputer list.
Linperlisib
Linperlisib (林普利塞; development code YY-20394) is an oral, selective PI3K delta inhibitor developed by Shanghai Yingli Pharmaceutical and conditionally approved in China in 2022 for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.
Linq
Linq is a word-based bluffing and deduction party game by Erik Nielsen, first published by Endless Games in 2004. Two of 4-8 players secretly share a word and find each other through one-word clues; Spiel des Jahres recommended 2008.
Linqing Ancient City Site
临清古城遗址 (Linqing Ancient City Site): medieval Linqing county seat ruins east of Cangshang village, Linxi County, Xingtai, Hebei; Northern Wei to Jin (497–1127), 4.5 km², north wall and gate survive, national key protection site since 2013.
Linqu
Linqu County (临朐县, Línqú Xiàn), also called Pianyi, is a county of Weifang, Shandong, China, at the north foot of Mount Yi on the upper Mi River. Han-established, 1,831 km², 4 subdistricts and 6 towns, 2025 GDP 50.2 billion yuan, National Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zone.
Linquan Gaozhi
Linquan Gaozhi (林泉高致, "Exalted Views on Woods and Streams") is a Northern Song treatise on landscape painting, compiled by Guo Si from his father Guo Xi's teachings.
Linrodostat
Linrodostat (BMS-986205, ONO-7701) is an oral, irreversible apo-IDO1 inhibitor developed by Bristol Myers Squibb from Flexus Biosciences for cancer immunotherapy; phase 3 bladder cancer trials with nivolumab followed halted melanoma and lung programs.
Linse Capital
Linse Capital is a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based growth equity and private equity firm founded by Michael Linse in 2015, investing $100 to $400 million per company in industrial and deep-technology businesses.
Linse Capital Space
Linse Capital Space is a series of three private funds managed by Linse Capital LLC, a Puerto Rico firm founded by Michael Linse, investing substantially all assets in SpaceX.
Linse Capital Stellar
Linse Capital Stellar is a series of single-asset venture capital funds, administered from Reno, Nevada, that invest substantially all of their assets in Impulse Space securities.
Linseed oil
Linseed oil, also called flaxseed oil, is a drying oil pressed from flax seeds, used since the 15th century as the binder of oil paint and a wood finish.
Linsey Dawn McKenzie
Linsey Dawn McKenzie (born 1978) is an English glamour model and adult film performer, also known as LDM, who debuted topless in the Sunday Sport on her 16th birthday in 1994, appeared as a Page Three girl, starred in SCORE from 1996, and later ran LinseysWorld.com.
Linsey Godfrey
Linsey Godfrey (born 1988, Stuart, Florida) is an American soap opera actress, known as Caroline Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful (2012-2018) and Dr. Sarah Horton on Days of Our Lives (from 2018), a Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor and Daytime Emmy nominee.
Linsidomine
Linsidomine, also known as 3-morpholinosydnonimine or SIN-1, is a nitric oxide donor and the active metabolite of the antianginal drug molsidomine, studied for preventing restenosis after angioplasty.
Linsitinib
Linsitinib (OSI-906, ASP-7487, VGN-001) is an oral dual IGF-1R/insulin receptor kinase inhibitor (IC50 35/75 nM) that failed phase 3 in adrenocortical carcinoma and is now in phase 3 for thyroid eye disease.
Linska
Linska is a London-born, Los Angeles-based DJ and producer working in dark, driving tech house and melodic techno, whose 2024 debut single "Bad Boy" topped Beatport's charts.
Lint (software)
Lint is a static analysis tool that flags suspicious constructs and probable bugs in source code without running it, first written for C at Bell Labs in 1978.
Lintel
A lintel is a horizontal beam of stone, timber, steel, or concrete spanning the top of a door or window and carrying the weight above it.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, is a London-based reggae poet and leading dub poetry figure who was the first black poet published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Lintuzumab
Lintuzumab, also known as HuM195, is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody targeting CD33 that was developed for acute myeloid leukemia and is now used in actinium-225 radioimmunotherapy trials.
Linum
Linum (flax genus), Linaceae, a genus of about 215 accepted species of herbs with showy blue, yellow, pink, red, or white flowers; includes cultivated flax Linum usitatissimum, source of linen and linseed oil.
Linuron
Linuron is a phenylurea herbicide that kills weeds by inhibiting photosynthesis, first registered in the United States in 1966 and still registered in North America.
Linus and Lucy
Linus and Lucy is Vince Guaraldi's 1964 jazz instrumental, the de facto Peanuts theme, first played over the phone to Lee Mendelson and featured in A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).
Linus Olsson
Linus Olsson, born 1978, is a Swedish fintech entrepreneur and former CEO of Flattr, the Malmö micropayment service launched with Peter Sunde and acquired by Eyeo in 2017.
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (1901–1994) was an American chemist who helped establish quantum chemistry and molecular biology, winning the 1954 Chemistry and 1962 Peace Nobel Prizes.