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miRNAs in neuronal regulation

miRNAs in neuronal regulation is the study of how microRNAs control neurons: miR-124 makes up 25 to 48% of brain miRNAs and drives the PTBP1-PTBP2 differentiation switch.

Oct 20, 2026

Mirni Rupes is a 258-km lobate scarp (rupes) on Mercury, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for Bellingshausen's Antarctic exploration ship Mirni; it lies near 38.5S, 39W and is concentric to a buried 550-km basin.

Oct 15, 2026

MIRO

MIRO, the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, was a millimeter-submillimeter spectrometer on ESA's Rosetta spacecraft that measured gas abundances and subsurface temperatures on comet 67P.

Miro (Мирослав Петров Барняшев) (wrestler)

Miro (Miroslav Petrov Barnyashev, Мирослав Петров Барняшев), born December 25 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian wrestler: three-time WWE United States Champion as Rusev, one-time AEW TNT Champion as Miro, back in WWE since April 2025.

Oct 20, 2026

Miro Aaltonen

Miro Aaltonen (born 1993, Joensuu) is a Finnish ice hockey center/left wing for SC Bern of the Swiss National League, a 2022 Olympic gold medalist, former Toronto Marlies Calder Cup winner, and KHL veteran; suspended one month in 2025 for cocaine.

Oct 15, 2026

MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery

The MiRO Karlsruhe Refinery (Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein) is an oil refinery on the Rhine in Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 1996 and the largest fuel producer in Germany.

Miro la tierra

Miro la tierra is a 1986 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems written between 1983 and 1986 in response to the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes.

MiroBio

MiroBio was a biotechnology company spun out of the University of Oxford in 2019 to develop checkpoint-agonist antibodies for autoimmune and inflammatory disease, acquired by Gilead Sciences for about $405 million in 2022.

Mirobriga (Portugal)

Mirobriga (Miróbriga, Mirobriga Celticorum, Merobrica), Roman town in Lusitania at Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal, Portugal; Iron Age Celtic oppidum with forum, baths, temples, circus; occupied to 4th century AD, Visigothic reuse to 6th.

Oct 15, 2026

MIROC (climate model)

MIROC, the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate, is a Japanese coupled atmosphere–ocean climate model developed by NIES, the University of Tokyo, and JAMSTEC, contributing to CMIP and IPCC reports.

Mirogabalin

Mirogabalin (Tarlige, DS-5565) is a Daiichi Sankyo gabapentinoid α2δ calcium-channel ligand approved in Japan and other Asian countries for neuropathic pain, with slower α2δ-1 dissociation than pregabalin.

Miroirs No. 3

Miroirs No. 3 (Mirrors No. 3) is Christian Petzold's 2025 German drama, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, starring Paula Beer as a piano student taken in by Barbara Auer's Betty after a fatal car crash; titled after Ravel.

Miroku Bosatsu at Chūgū-ji

The Miroku Bosatsu of Chūgū-ji (Bosatsu hanka-zō) is a National Treasure wooden statue kept at Chūgū-ji nunnery in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, dated to around 650.

Miroku Bosatsu of Hōryū-ji

Miroku Bosatsu (弥勒菩薩), the Japanese name for the bodhisattva Maitreya, appears at Hōryū-ji in Nara as a clay sculpture group on the pagoda's south face.

Miroku Buddha of Kōfuku-ji

The Miroku Buddha of Kōfuku-ji (木造弥勒如来坐像) is a seated statue of Miroku Nyorai made around 1212 under Unkei's direction for the Northern Round Hall of Kōfuku-ji in Nara, designated a National Treasure.

Miroku Nyorai at Tōshōdai-ji

The Miroku Nyorai seated statue (弥勒如来坐像) is a Kamakura-period wooden Buddhist image that serves as the principal object of worship in the Lecture Hall of Tōshōdai-ji in Nara, Japan.

Miron Białoszewski

Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was a Polish poet, prose writer, and playwright, a major figure of twentieth-century Polish literature known for his experimental, colloquial poetic language.

Sep 24, 2026

Miron Costin

Miron Costin (1633–1691) was a Moldavian boyar, chronicler, poet, and statesman who rose to grand logothete, wrote a chronicle of Moldavia covering 1595–1661, and was executed in 1691.

Miron Cristea

Miron Cristea, born Ilie Cristea, was the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Prime Minister of Romania from 1938 until his death in Cannes in 1939.

Miron Lifintsev

Miron Lifintsev (Мирон Лифинцев), Russian backstroke swimmer born 2006 in Vyborg; seven-time world champion competing as Neutral Athlete B; holds SCM 4x100 medley relay world record 3:18.68 and world junior records 22.47/48.76.

Miroslav Cerar

Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast for Yugoslavia, born 28 October 1939 in Ljubljana; double Olympic pommel horse champion (1964, 1968), three-time world champion, later lawyer and co-founder of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia.

Oct 20, 2026

Miroslav Ignatiuk

Miroslav Ignatiuk (Myroslav Ihnatiuk, Мирослав Ігнатюк), Ukrainian sport shooter born 1957 in Zaporizhzhia; 1990 World champion in 25m standard pistol and holder of the 25m center fire pistol team world record (1762, URS, 1990).

Oct 10, 2026

Miroslav Katětov

Miroslav Katětov (1918–1995) was a Czech mathematician and chess master who made foundational contributions to general topology and functional analysis while playing competitive chess for Czechoslovakia.

Miroslav Klose

Miroslav Klose, born 1978 in Opole, Poland, is Germany's record scorer (71 goals in 137 caps) and the former all-time FIFA World Cup top scorer with 16 goals; 2014 world champion, later Nuremberg coach.

Miroslav Koranda

Miroslav Koranda (1934–2008) was a Czechoslovak rowing coxswain who steered the coxed four to surprise gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, his country's first rowing medal.

Miroslav Krleža

Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), Croatian writer and encyclopedist of Zagreb, author of Povratak Filipa Latinovicza, Balade Petrice Kerempuha, and Zastave, founder of the Lexicographic Institute bearing his name.

Sep 20, 2026

Miroslav Krstić

Miroslav Krstić is a control theorist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego whose extremum-seeking methods enabled EUV chip lithography and jet landings on Gerald Ford-class carriers.

Miroslav Poljak

Miroslav Poljak (Мирослав Пољак), Croatian water polo player (1944–2015) of Mladost Zagreb; won 1968 Olympic gold with Yugoslavia, four European Champions Cups, four Yugoslav titles, and was four times Europe's top scorer.