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Selmer M. Johnson
Selmer M. Johnson, born 1916 in Buhl, Minnesota, is an American mathematician at RAND known for the Johnson graphs, the Johnson scheme, and the Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm.
Selo and derevnya
Selo and derevnya are two historical types of rural locality in Russia: a selo had a church and anchored the parish, while a churchless derevnya belonged to a nearby selo's parish.
Seloka
Seloka is a traditional Malay poetry genre that teaches through satire, humor, and gentle social criticism, in a free form not fixed in stanza count, line count, or rhyme.
Selonsertib
Selonsertib (GS-4997) is Gilead's oral ASK1 inhibitor tested for NASH fibrosis; promising phase 2 results were not confirmed in the phase III STELLAR-3 and STELLAR-4 trials, and development for NASH stopped.
Selous Game Reserve
Selous Game Reserve, southern Tanzania, a 50,000 sq km UNESCO World Heritage site (1982, criteria ix and x) split in 2019 when Nyerere National Park was created; on the Danger List since 2014 over poaching and the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project.
Selous Scouts
Selous Scouts: Rhodesian special forces regiment (1973–1980) under Ron Reid-Daly, specializing in pseudo-operations with turned guerrillas; credited with 68% of internal insurgent kills; disbanded at Zimbabwe's independence.
SELP
SELP (selectin P, CD62P, GMP140, PADGEM) is the human chromosome 1q24.2 gene encoding P-selectin, a 140 kDa calcium-dependent adhesion receptor stored in platelet alpha-granules and endothelial Weibel-Palade bodies that mediates leukocyte rolling via PSGL-1; distinct from selenoprotein P (SELENOP).
Selpercatinib
Selpercatinib (Retevmo, LOXO-292) is an oral, highly selective RET kinase inhibitor by Eli Lilly, FDA-approved since May 2020 for RET fusion-positive NSCLC, thyroid cancers, and, since 2022, tissue-agnostic RET fusion-positive solid tumors.
Selton Sánchez
Selton Sánchez (Selton Sued Sánchez Camilo, born 2007, Basauri) is a Spanish attacking midfielder for Athletic Club; Lezama academy product, first-team debut November 2025 in the Champions League, Spain U19 international.
Seltorexant
Seltorexant (JNJ-42847922, MIN-202) is an investigational selective orexin-2 receptor antagonist developed by Janssen and Minerva for major depressive disorder with insomnia and insomnia disorder; Phase 3 results are mixed and it remains unapproved.
Selu Corona
Selu Corona is a large corona on Venus at 42.5°S, 6°E, about 300-350 km across, a plateau-shaped volcano-tectonic ring with radial and concentric fractures, named for the Cherokee corn goddess.
Selumetinib
Selumetinib (Koselugo, AZD6244, ARRY-142886) is an oral MEK1/2 inhibitor approved for NF1-related symptomatic inoperable plexiform neurofibromas in children and, since 2025, adults; 68% pediatric response in SPRINT, 20% vs 5% placebo in KOMET.
Selux Diagnostics
Selux Diagnostics is an American biotechnology diagnostics company founded in 2014 and based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, developing the Next Generation Phenotyping platform for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing.
Selva
Selva (from Latin silva) is the Spanish and Catalan word for dense tall forest, used for Latin American tropical rainforest, the Amazon; also La Selva comarca in Catalonia (995 km², 26 municipalities) and the Selva Maya (150,000 km² across Mexico, Guatemala, Belize).
Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve
Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Selva El Ocote), a 101,288-hectare tropical rainforest reserve in northwestern Chiapas, Mexico, decreed in 2000, UNESCO MAB site since 2006, karst caves, La Venta canyon, jaguar and mahogany habitat.
Selvacovatein
Selvacovatein is the INN of the active substance of Bimervax (HIPRA), a recombinant protein RBD fusion heterodimer COVID-19 booster vaccine (Alpha/Beta strains, SQBA-adjuvanted) authorised in the EU in March 2023.
Selvage
Selvage, also spelled selvedge, is the self-finished lengthwise edge of woven fabric, formed on the loom where the weft turns back, that resists fraying without hemming.
Selvaraghavan (செல்வராகவன்)
Selvaraghavan (செல்வராகவன்), also credited as Sri Raghava in Telugu cinema, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, son of Kasthuri Raja and elder brother of Dhanush, known for Kaadhal Konden, 7G Rainbow Colony, Pudhupettai, Aayirathil Oruvan and NGK.
Selvaraj V.
Selvaraj V. is an Indian Communist Party of India politician who won the Nagapattinam constituency in Tamil Nadu in the 2024 election, entering the Lok Sabha.
Selvasecca di Blera
Selvasecca di Blera, an Etruscan-Roman villa site about 6 km southwest of Blera, Lazio, excavated by Eric Berggren 1965-1967; known for on-site architectural terracotta production and the disputed claim of being Italy's earliest villa.
Selvi Ananda
Selvi Ananda Putri (born 1989, Surakarta) is the Second Lady of Indonesia, wife of Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka since 2015, daughter-in-law of Joko Widodo, chair of Dekranas and Seruni, Putri Solo 2009, former PaninBank employee.
Selwyn
Selwyn: a geographic name shared by several Canadian lakes (largest at 60°N, 104.5°W, 717 km²), the Selwyn Lake Upland ecoregion, Selwyn Basin, Mount Selwyn BC, Selwyn District NZ, and the Selwyn area of Kosciuszko NP, Australia.
Selwyn Maister
Selwyn Gerald Maister (born 1946, Christchurch) is a New Zealand field hockey centre half, 1969 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, captain 1973-74, and gold medallist at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Selwyn Mountains (range/mtn, Australia)
Selwyn Range (Selwyn Mountains), rugged Proterozoic mountain range near Mount Isa and Cloncurry, north-west Queensland, Australia; named after surveyor Alfred Selwyn, crossed by Burke and Wills in 1861, and a copper-gold-lead-zinc mining district.
Selwyn Mountains (range/mtn, Canada)
The Selwyn Mountains are a mountain range of the northern Canadian Cordillera lying near the western border of the Northwest Territories and extending into Yukon, beside the Mackenzie Mountains.
Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.
Selwyn O. Rogers Jr. is an American trauma surgeon and health equity leader at the University of Chicago Medicine, where he founded the first trauma center on Chicago's underserved South Side.
Sema domain
Sema domain: ~500-residue N-terminal seven-blade beta-propeller protein domain defining semaphorins, plexins, and MET/RON receptor tyrosine kinases; mediates ligand-receptor binding, dimerizes in semaphorins, monomeric in plexins.
Sema Kaygusuz
Sema Kaygusuz is a Turkish writer of stories, novels, essays, and plays, born in 1972 in Samsun, whose novel Yere Düşen Dualar won international prizes.
SEMA4D
SEMA4D (CD100), semaphorin 4D, is a class IV transmembrane semaphorin gene at 9q22.2 signaling via plexin-B1, plexin-B2, and CD72; overexpressed in many tumors and targeted by the antibody pepinemab (VX15/2503) in cancer trials.
Semagacestat
Semagacestat (LY450139) is Eli Lilly's oral gamma-secretase inhibitor for Alzheimer's disease, the first to reach phase III (IDENTITY trials), halted in August 2010 for cognitive worsening and skin cancer risk from Notch inhibition.