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Myotonic dystrophy
Myotonic dystrophy (Steinert's disease, DM1/DM2) is an autosomal dominant multisystem muscular dystrophy caused by CTG (DMPK) or CCTG (CNBP) repeat expansions producing toxic RNA that sequesters MBNL splicing factors; no approved disease-modifying therapy exists.
Myotoxin
Myotoxins are venom proteins and peptides, especially PLA2 myotoxins (Asp49 and catalytically inactive Lys49 homologues) from viperid snakes, that cause rapid skeletal muscle necrosis (myonecrosis) through Ca2+-independent membrane disruption at a C-terminal cationic/hydrophobic site.
Myotube
Myotube: the multinucleated, cylindrical cell formed by fusion of myoblasts during skeletal muscle development and regeneration; matures into a myofiber, with primary and secondary forms and C2C12 as the standard in vitro model.
Myotubularin
Myotubularin (MTM1), 603-aa lipid phosphatase at Xq28, dephosphorylates PtdIns3P and PtdIns(3,5)P2; founder of the 15-member MTM/MTMR family; mutated in X-linked myotubular myopathy.
Myoung Hoon Song
Myoung Hoon Song (송명훈) is a materials scientist who has been a professor at UNIST in South Korea since 2009, known for perovskite LEDs, solar cells, and lasing research.
Myoviridae
Myoviridae was a former ICTV family of tailed dsDNA phages with long contractile tails (80–455 nm), including T4, P1, P2, and Mu; abolished in 2022, its members now sit in class Caudoviricetes.
Myoxocephalus scorpius
Myoxocephalus scorpius, the shorthorn sculpin (basionym Cottus scorpius, Linnaeus 1758), is a North Atlantic and Arctic demersal sculpin of the family Cottidae, reaching 78 cm, spawning December to March with male-guarded eggs, and used as an Arctic pollution sentinel species.
MyPlate
MyPlate was the USDA's plate-shaped icon for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2011 to 2026, replacing MyPyramid; four quadrants (fruits, vegetables, grains, protein) plus dairy, retired January 2026 for RealFood.gov.
Myra
Myra: ancient Lycian city at modern Demre, Turkey, one of six leading Lycian League cities with three votes, port Andriake, Roman theatre, 4th-century BCE rock-cut tombs, and bishopric of Saint Nicholas.
Myra Breckinridge (film)
Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy directed by Michael Sarne for Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Raquel Welch and Mae West and adapted from Gore Vidal's satirical 1968 novel.
Myra Kraft
Myra Hiatt Kraft (1942-2011), American philanthropist, wife of Patriots owner Robert Kraft; first woman chair of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, president of the Patriots Charitable Foundation, namesake of the Myra Kraft Community MVP Award.
Myra Lewis Williams
Myra Lewis Williams (born 1944), born Myra Gale Brown, is the American author and Atlanta realtor who married Jerry Lee Lewis at 13 in 1957, sparking the scandal that wrecked his career; author of Great Balls of Fire and The Spark That Survived.
Myrcella Baratheon
Myrcella Baratheon, fictional princess of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones; legally Robert Baratheon's daughter, biologically Jaime Lannister's; betrothed to Trystane Martell, alive in the books, poisoned by Ellaria Sand in the show.
Myrcene
Myrcene, in practice β-myrcene, is an acyclic monoterpene hydrocarbon making up much of the essential oils of hops, cannabis, lemongrass, and citrus, used as a flavoring agent.
Myrcia
Myrcia is a genus of roughly 800 accepted species of evergreen shrubs and trees in the myrtle family, native from southern Mexico to tropical America, especially Brazil.
Myrciaria
Myrciaria O.Berg is a genus of 47 accepted New World Myrtaceae shrubs and trees, native to tropical America with peak diversity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, including jaboticaba and camu-camu fruit species.
Myrciaria dubia
Myrciaria dubia, camu-camu, is an Amazonian Myrtaceae shrub or small tree of flooded riverbanks across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, and Bolivia, with pulp containing 2.4-3.0 g vitamin C per 100 g; IUCN Least Concern.
Mýrdalsjökull
Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland's fourth largest ice cap (598 km², ~140 km³ in 1991; 510 km² in 2023), covers the Katla volcano on the south coast, source of jökulhlaups and rapid 1994–2010 mass loss.
MyRepublic
MyRepublic is a Singapore telecommunications company, incorporated in 2011 by Malcolm Rodrigues and partners, that built retail fiber broadband in Asia-Pacific before selling its broadband business to StarHub.
Myriad
A myriad is, precisely, the number ten thousand, the largest number named by one word in ancient Greek; in modern English it loosely means an indefinitely great number.
Myriad Colors Phantom World
Myriad Colors Phantom World (無彩限のファントム・ワールド, Musaigen no Phantom World) is a Sōichirō Hatano light novel (KA Esuma Bunko, 2013) and 2016 Kyoto Animation TV anime about students at Hosea Academy sealing phantoms after an event altered human perception.
Myriad of Lights (万家灯火)
Myriad of Lights (万家灯火) is a 1948 Chinese black-and-white drama directed by Shen Fu about a small Shanghai family strained by inflation and an influx of relatives.
Myriad Ventures
Myriad Ventures, publicly Myriad Venture Partners, is an early-stage venture capital firm spun out of Xerox Ventures in 2024, investing in AI, clean technology, and B2B software.
Myriade
Myriade is a standardized microsatellite bus developed by CNES, the French space agency, since 1998, flying 15 satellites since 2004 for science and defense missions.
Myriam Bedard
Myriam Bédard, Canadian biathlete born 1969 in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Québec; double gold medalist at Lillehammer 1994 and bronze at Albertville 1992, first Canadian Olympic biathlon medalist and 1993 world sprint champion.
Myriam Chalabi
Myriam Chalabi is a Dutch medical oncologist and clinical group leader of gastrointestinal oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for the NICHE immunotherapy trials.
Myriam Fares
Myriam Fares (ميريام فارس) is a Lebanese singer, dancer, and songwriter born in 1983, known for dance-driven Arabic pop and the 2019 viral hit "Goumi".
Myriam Gorospe
Myriam Gorospe is a molecular biologist who leads the RNA Regulation Section at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, studying mRNA control in aging.
Myriam Sarachik
Myriam Sarachik (1933–2021) was an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at the City College of New York, known for confirming the Kondo effect and pioneering studies of molecular nanomagnets.
Myriandos
Myriandos (Myriandros), ancient Phoenician port town near modern İskenderun, Turkey, on the Gulf of Issus; known from Herodotus, Xenophon (401 BC), and Alexander's march (333 BC); precise location undetermined.