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SPI1
SPI1, also called PU.1 or the Spi-1 proto-oncogene, is a human gene on chromosome 11p11.2 encoding an ETS transcription factor that regulates blood cell development and is linked to leukemia.
Spiaggia Delle Sirene
Spiaggia delle Sirene, meaning Beach of the Sirens, is the name of several Italian beaches, the best known being Scilla's 800-meter main beach on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria.
Spiber (Japanese biotechnology company)
Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology company in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, founded in 2007, that makes Brewed Protein materials by fermentation; it raised over 100 billion yen before restructuring in 2026.
Spiber Technologies AB
Spiber Technologies AB is a Swedish biotech company in Stockholm, founded in 2007 from academic spider-silk research, that develops recombinant spider silk proteins for biomedical and life-science applications.
Spica
Spica (Alpha Virginis) is the brightest star in Virgo, a blue-white binary of two massive B-type stars orbiting every 4.0145 days, about 250 light-years away.
Spice
Spice: dried plant parts (fruits, seeds, bark, rhizomes, buds) used for flavor, color, preservation, or medicine; allspice (Pimenta dioica) is the only major spice native to the New World, with Jamaica producing about 70% of world supply.
SPICE
SPICE, short for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is an electronic circuit simulation program developed at UC Berkeley, first released in 1972 and standard for analog design.
Spice (album)
Spice is the 1996 debut album by the Spice Girls (Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams) on Virgin Records; it topped UK and US charts, sold over 31 million copies, and is the best-selling album by a female group.
Spice (bomb)
Spice is a family of Israeli precision-guided glide bombs produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, a name often confused in reporting with the American GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb.
Spice (musician)
Spice (Grace Latoya Hamilton, born 1982) is a Jamaican dancehall singer and deejay called the Queen of Dancehall; she broke out with "Romping Shop" with Vybz Kartel and was the first hardcore female dancehall artist Grammy-nominated for Best Reggae Album (2021's 10).
Spice 1
Spice 1 (Robert Lee Greene Jr., b. 1970) is a Bay Area gangsta rapper from Hayward/Oakland; Jive Records artist whose 1990s albums Spice 1, 187 He Wrote, AmeriKKKa's Nightmare, and 1990-Sick defined his career. Not the dancehall singer Spice.
Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料)
Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料), by Isuna Hasekura, is an economic fantasy light novel about merchant Kraft Lawrence traveling with the wolf deity Holo; debut 2006 Dengeki Bunko, 2024 anime remake, 2027 second season.
Spice Diana
Spice Diana, born Namukwaya Hajara Diana, is a Ugandan R&B and pop singer who broke through in 2014 with "Onsanula" and sings in Luganda, English, and Swahili.
Spice Girls
The Spice Girls is a successful British pop group formed in 1994, who achieved nine Number 1 UK singles and sold 85 million records worldwide.
Spice Girls discography
Spice Girls discography: three studio albums, Spice (1996, over 23 million sold), Spiceworld (1997) and Forever (2000); nine UK number-one singles, plus The Singles Collection box set of 2026.
Spice mix
Spice mix, also called spice blend or seasoning blend: a mixture of spices and herbs in set proportions, e.g. curry powder, garam masala, ras el hanout, berbere; covers composition, shelf life, labeling, and safety.
Spice Networks
Spice Networks, also known as Spice Channel, was Playboy's umbrella brand for its hard-core and adult movie networks on cable, satellite, and telco platforms, originating in a 1989 pay-per-view channel and sold to Manwin in 2011.
SPICE simulation
SPICE simulation, short for Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, numerically solves a circuit's nonlinear equations from a netlist, becoming the de facto standard of analog design.
SPICE STEMI trial
SPICE STEMI (NCT07149961) is a completed Indonesian randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of curcumin 390 mg plus piperine 20 mg daily for 28 days after PPCI in 50 STEMI patients, measuring hsCRP and MDA; no results posted.
SPICE toolkit
The SPICE toolkit, named for Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events, is a free software library and data system from NASA's NAIF for computing observation geometry in planetary missions.
Spice trade
The spice trade is the historic commerce in pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg that moved from India and the Spice Islands to Europe, later dominated by Portuguese and Dutch maritime empires.
Spice Up Our Love
Spice Up Our Love (사장님의 식단표, The CEO's Menu) is a 2024 two-episode South Korean TVING romantic comedy fantasy spin-off of No Gain No Love, starring Han Ji-hyun and Lee Sang-yi, streaming on Prime Video, in which a web novelist wakes inside her own R-rated novel.
Spice World (film)
Spice World is a 1997 British musical comedy film starring the Spice Girls as themselves, directed by Bob Spiers, ahead of their Royal Albert Hall concert.
SpiceJet
SpiceJet, also known as Royal Airways, is an Indian low-cost airline founded in 2005 and headquartered in Gurugram, operating domestic and international passenger flights and SpiceXpress cargo services.
Spiceworld (album)
Spiceworld, the Spice Girls' second studio album (Virgin, 3 November 1997), recorded largely during the Spice World film shoot; three weeks at UK No. 1, No. 1 in eleven other territories, and over 14 million copies sold worldwide.
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫)
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫, Aiqing mala tang) is a 1997 Chinese romantic ensemble film, Zhang Yang's directorial debut, produced by Peter Loehr's Imar Film with Xi'an Film Studio; five love vignettes framed by a couple's wedding earned 30 million yuan, second only to Titanic that year.
SPIDAR
SPIDAR (Space Interface Device for Artificial Reality) is a string-based haptic interface family developed at Tokyo Institute of Technology, using motor-driven strings to track the hand and apply force feedback in virtual environments.
Spider
Spider (Araneae): silk-producing, venomous arachnid predator found worldwide except Antarctica. About 51,500 described species, evolved roughly 400 million years ago; most build no webs, and spiders strongly suppress crop pests.
Spider (2002 film)
Spider (2002) is David Cronenberg's psychological drama, adapted by Patrick McGrath from his novel, starring Ralph Fiennes as a schizophrenic man reconstructing his mother's murder; distinct from Spider-Man (2002).
Spider (pulp fiction character)
The Spider is Richard Wentworth, hero of the Popular Publications pulp magazine The Spider (118 issues, October 1933 to December 1943), mainly written by Norvell Page as Grant Stockbridge; a violent Shadow competitor who branded crimson spider seals on criminals, adapted to 1938 and 1941 Columbia serials.