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Synthliboramphus
Synthliboramphus (Brandt, 1837) is a genus of five North Pacific auk species: Ancient, Japanese, Scripps's, Guadalupe, and Craveri's murrelets, small burrow-nesting seabirds whose precocial chicks go to sea within days of hatching.
Synthon
A synthon is an idealized molecular fragment, usually charged, generated by mentally breaking a bond during retrosynthetic analysis, a concept defined by E. J. Corey in 1967.
Synthorx
Synthorx was a La Jolla, California biopharmaceutical company that used an expanded genetic alphabet to engineer protein drugs, best known for the engineered interleukin-2 candidate THOR-707.
Synthwave
Synthwave, also known as retrowave or outrun, is an electronic music genre that emerged in the mid-2000s, reviving 1980s film scores, synth-pop, and Italo disco.
Syntiant
Syntiant Corp. is an Irvine, California semiconductor company founded in 2017 that makes ultra-low-power AI processors and MEMS microphones, and filed for a Nasdaq IPO in 2026.
Syntrophin
Syntrophin is a family of five cytoplasmic scaffold proteins, about 59 kDa each, that anchor signaling proteins like nNOS to dystrophin at muscle and nerve cell membranes.
Syntrophy and interspecies electron transfer in methanogenic communities
Syntrophy in methanogenic communities is a mutual metabolism where fermenting bacteria oxidize substrates only because methanogens remove hydrogen, formate, and acetate, via interspecies electron transfer.
Syntrophy and symbiosis in hyperthermophile communities
Syntrophy in hyperthermophile communities: obligately mutualistic metabolism among archaea and bacteria growing above 80°C, via H2, formate, or direct interspecies electron transfer at hydrothermal vents and hot springs.
Synuclein
Synuclein: family of three intrinsically disordered presynaptic proteins, alpha (SNCA, 140 aa), beta (SNCB), gamma (SNCG). Alpha-synuclein aggregates form Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease, DLB, and MSA; gamma-synuclein is overexpressed in breast cancer.
Synucleinopathy
Synucleinopathy: group of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy, defined by aggregated alpha-synuclein inclusions in neurons or glia, prion-like spread, and seed amplification assay diagnosis.
Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates (Brian Elwin Haner, Jr., born 1981) is the American lead guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold, known for sweep-picked solos on Afterlife and Bat Country, his Schecter signature guitars, and the free Synyster Gates School.
Syon House
Syon House is a Grade I listed country house in Brentford, London, built on the site of Syon Abbey and the London residence of the Dukes of Northumberland.
Sypharochiton pelliserpentis
Sypharochiton pelliserpentis, also called Papatua, is an intertidal marine chiton common in New Zealand and southeastern Australia, described by Quoy and Gaimard in 1835.
Syphax
Syphax, also known as Sifax or Sufax, was a king of the Masaesyli in Numidia who allied with Rome, then Carthage, before being captured by Scipio Africanus in 203 BC.
Syphax's war against Carthage
Syphax's war against Carthage (c. 214–206 BC) was the conflict in which Syphax, king of the Masaesyli in Numidia, broke with Carthage and allied with Rome.
Syphax's war with Masinissa
Syphax's war with Masinissa was the war between Numidia's two kings, Syphax allied to Carthage and Masinissa to Rome, ending with Syphax's capture at Cirta in 203 BC.
Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum, also called lues, progressing through primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary stages and treated with penicillin G; WHO estimates 8 million new adult infections in 2022.
Syphilis Serodiagnosis
Syphilis serodiagnosis detects antibodies to Treponema pallidum using nontreponemal (RPR, VDRL) and treponemal tests arranged in traditional or reverse screening algorithms, differing in sensitivity, false positives, and cost.
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus is a three-book Latin didactic poem by the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro, printed at Verona in 1530 and famous for coining the word syphilis.
Syphon Filter
Syphon Filter is a 1999 PlayStation third-person stealth-action shooter by Eidetic (later Bend Studio) starring agent Gabe Logan, known for its Air Taser, 90 Metacritic score, and a series spanning PS1, PS2, and PSP through 2007.
Syr Darya (سیردریا)
Syr Darya (سیردریا), ancient Jaxartes, is a major Central Asian river rising in Kyrgyzstan and flowing to the Aral Sea; heavily diverted for Soviet irrigation, it drove the Aral's shrinkage and is now managed under transboundary agreements.
Syr ibn Abi Bakr
Syr ibn Abi Bakr (سير بن أبي بكر) was an Almoravid commander and governor, a close kinsman of Yusuf ibn Tashfin who served as his deputy in al-Andalus.
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica is a UNESCO World Heritage site in south-eastern Sicily, Italy, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2005.
Syracuse Mets
Syracuse Mets, formerly the Syracuse Chiefs (1934-2018), are the Triple-A International League affiliate of the New York Mets since 2019, owned by the Mets since 2017, playing at NBT Bank Stadium (capacity 11,071).
Syracuse Orange football
Syracuse Orange football: Syracuse University's NCAA FBS team in the ACC. Founded 1889; 1959 national champions (11-0, Cotton Bowl win over Texas); Ernie Davis won the 1961 Heisman, the first African-American winner; head coach Fran Brown since 2024.
Syracuse Orange men's basketball
Syracuse Orange men's basketball: Syracuse University's NCAA Division I program (first season 1900-01), ACC member, 2003 national champions under Jim Boeheim, famed for his 47-season tenure and 2-3 zone defense.
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private R1 research university in Syracuse, New York, chartered in 1870. It was founded by Methodists and is known for its coeducational programs.
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York: Onondaga County seat and Central New York hub, once the nation's salt producer via the Erie Canal, now known for 126 inches of annual snow, high poverty, the I-81 Community Grid, and Micron's $100 billion fab project in nearby Clay.
Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse (Siracusa), southeastern Sicily: Greek colony founded by Corinthians in 734 BC, Cicero's 'greatest Greek city', Byzantine capital under Constans II, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005 with Pantalica.
Syrah
Syrah, called Shiraz in Australia since the 1830s, is a black Vitis vinifera grape from the northern Rhône, parents Dureza and Mondeuse blanche; France and Australia hold the largest plantings, styles ranging from peppery Côte-Rôtie to ripe Barossa Shiraz.