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Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, a white-rot basidiomycete and second most cultivated edible mushroom after Agaricus bisporus; 9.3 Mt produced in 2021, lignin degraded by versatile peroxidases, MnPs and laccases, grown on pasteurized straw at 10-18 C.
Plex (software)
Plex is a media platform whose server app organizes personal movies, TV shows, music, and photos into libraries and streams them to apps on other devices.
Plexcitons
Plexcitons, short for plasmon–exciton polaritons, are hybrid quasiparticles formed when a plasmon in a metallic nanostructure couples to an exciton, forming two new states under strong coupling.
plexDIA
plexDIA (multiplexed data-independent acquisition) is a proteomics framework that labels samples with non-isobaric tags, raising throughput up to 12-fold, developed at Northeastern University in 2022.
PLEXIL
PLEXIL (Plan Execution Interchange Language) is an open-source language developed by NASA and Carnegie Mellon University for representing and executing automation plans on spacecraft, robots, and unmanned vehicles.
Plexo Capital
Plexo Capital is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Lo Toney after incubation inside GV, Alphabet's venturing unit, investing in startups and emerging managers.
Plexus (company)
Plexus is an American electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, founded in 1979, which designs and manufactures complex products for regulated markets such as aerospace, defense, and healthcare.
Pleydellia
Pleydellia (Buckman, 1899), type species P. comata, an extinct Hildoceratidae ammonite genus of the late Toarcian to early Bajocian; index genus of the Pleydellia aalensis Zone, with synonyms Cotteswoldia and Walkericeras.
PLGA nanoparticles
PLGA nanoparticles are submicron drug carriers made from poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), a biodegradable and biocompatible FDA-approved copolymer, widely used for controlled and targeted delivery of small molecules, proteins, vaccines, and nucleic acids.
PLHPN trial
PLHPN (NCT03877107) was a French bicentric single-group trial testing whether depletive lumbar puncture improves overactive bladder symptoms in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, with shunt surgery urinary outcomes as a secondary endpoint.
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc.
Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by UCSF researchers; after discontinuing bexotegrast for pulmonary fibrosis in 2025, its lead drug is PLN-101095 for solid tumors.
Pliers
Pliers are hand tools with two handles, a pivot, and jaws, used to grip, bend, twist, or cut objects with more force than the hand alone.
Plies (rapper)
Plies (Algernod Lanier Washington, born 1976) is an American rapper from Fort Myers, Florida, signed to Slip-N-Slide in 2004. Known for "Shawty" (No. 9 Hot 100), four 2007–2010 albums including Definition of Real (No. 2 Billboard 200), and a 2011 Grammy nomination for "Lose My Mind".
Plihari vatika
Plihari vatika (Plīhāri vaṭī, प्लीहारि) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill for splenomegaly and hepatomegaly, listed in API Part II Vol III and AFI (AFI000936), dosed 250–500 mg twice daily.
Plimoth Patuxet
Plimoth Patuxet Museums, formerly Plimoth Plantation, is a living history museum complex in Plymouth, Massachusetts founded in 1947 by Henry Hornblower II, depicting 17th-century Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag homeland of Patuxet via the English Village, Mayflower II, and Patuxet Homesite.
Plimpton 322
Plimpton 322 is an Old Babylonian clay tablet from around 1800 BCE whose fifteen rows of numbers form Pythagorean triples; it is held at Columbia University.
PLIN1-related familial partial lipodystrophy
PLIN1-related familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD4, OMIM 613877) is a rare autosomal dominant lipodystrophy caused by frameshift variants in PLIN1, which encodes perilipin-1, marked by lower-limb and gluteal fat loss, muscular hypertrophy, insulin resistance, and hypertriglyceridemia.
Plinabulin
Plinabulin (NPI-2358, BPI-2358) is a synthetic diketopiperazine tubulin inhibitor derived from Aspergillus ustus phenylahistin, developed by BeyondSpring as a vascular disrupting agent and non-G-CSF treatment for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, with phase 3 DUBLIN-3 and PROTECTIVE trials.
Plini
Plini, born Plini Roessler-Holgate in Sydney, Australia in 1992, is an Australian guitarist and producer of instrumental progressive metal who has self-released three studio albums without a label or manager.
Plinian eruption
A Plinian eruption, also called a Vesuvian eruption, is the most powerful class of explosive volcanic eruption, named for Pliny the Younger's account of Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23/24–79 CE), Roman naval commander and author of the 37-book Natural History, the largest surviving work from the Roman Empire; died observing the Vesuvius eruption of AD 79, recorded in his nephew's letters to Tacitus.
Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, 61/62–c. 112 CE), Roman senator and letter-writer, nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder; author of the ten-book Epistles, the Vesuvius eruption letters 6.16 and 6.20, and the Trajanic correspondence including letter 10.96 on Christians.
Pliocene
The Pliocene Epoch spans 5.333 to 2.58 million years ago, following the Miocene and preceding the Pleistocene, with warm early climates and growing Northern Hemisphere ice sheets.
Pliocene climate
Pliocene climate: global conditions 5.3–2.6 Ma, when CO2 was ~400 ppm, mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (3.264–3.025 Ma) SSTs ran ~2.3 °C above pre-industrial, and PRISM/PlioMIP datasets make it a benchmark analogue for future warming.
Pliohippus
Pliohippus (Marsh, 1874) is an extinct Miocene North American horse genus, 12–6 mya, once called the direct ancestor of Equus but now a sister taxon of monodactyl Equini, with deep preorbital fossae and independently evolved single toes.
Pliomys
Pliomys is an extinct genus of voles that lived in Europe from the Pliocene into the Late Pleistocene, known almost entirely from distinctive fossil molars.
Pliopithecus
Pliopithecus (Gervais, 1849) is an extinct genus of pliopithecoid stem catarrhine primates from the Miocene of Eurasia; best known species P. antiquus, first fossil primate identified as primate (1837), quadrupedal climber, no modern descendants.
Pliosaurus
Pliosaurus, type genus of the pliosaurs, is a Late Jurassic thalassophonean pliosaurid marine reptile from the Kimmeridge Clay, reaching about 10–13 m, with trihedral teeth, high bite forces, and a diet of fish, squid, and other reptiles.
PLIP
PLIP: chiefly "PLIP" d.o.o. Tuzla, a Bosnian gambling company founded 2008 running automat clubs and Casino PLIP; also a Linux parallel-port protocol, CLIP-based AI models, and prison-health abbreviation.
Plitidepsin
Plitidepsin (Aplidin, dehydrodidemnin B) is a marine-derived cyclic depsipeptide from Aplidium albicans targeting eEF1A2; approved in Australia (2018) for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma with dexamethasone, refused in the EU, and trialed against COVID-19.