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Shiftless antiviral inhibitor of ribosomal frameshifting
Shiftless antiviral inhibitor of ribosomal frameshifting, or SHFL, is an interferon-stimulated human protein, named in 2019, that blocks the programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting used by HIV-1 and coronaviruses.
ShiftMed
ShiftMed is an American healthcare workforce management marketplace based in McLean, Virginia, founded by Todd Walrath, connecting credentialed nurses and aides with hospitals as W-2 employees.
Shiftsmart, Inc.
Shiftsmart, Inc. is a Dallas-based labor-management platform founded in 2015 by Aakash Kumar, Patrick Brandt, and Pavan Patel, which raised $95 million in 2021 to connect hourly workers with enterprise clients.
Shifty (TV series)
Shifty is a five-part Adam Curtis documentary series released on BBC iPlayer in June 2025, built from archive footage covering Britain from Thatcher's 1979 election to the century's end.
Shifty Shellshock
Shifty Shellshock, born Seth Brooks Binzer (1974–2024), was the Los Angeles rapper-singer who co-founded rap-rock band Crazy Town, fronted the two-week Billboard Hot 100 number one "Butterfly," and died of an accidental fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine overdose.
Shiga (district)
Shiga District (滋賀郡, Shiga-gun), a district of Shiga Prefecture, Japan; namesake of the prefecture, renamed from Otsu Prefecture in January 1872 because its office at Enmanin stood in the district's Bessho village.
Shiga (landform)
Shiga (志賀, Shiga-Kogen) is an andesitic shield-volcano complex in Nagano and Gunma, Japan, north of Kusatsu-Shirane; reclassified as active with eruptions about 6,400 and 400 years ago.
Shiga Bank
Shiga Bank (株式会社滋賀銀行) is a Japanese regional bank founded in 1933 and headquartered in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, holding nearly half of local loans and deposits.
Shiga Naoya
Shiga Naoya (志賀直哉, 1883–1971) was a Japanese novelist of the Shirakaba school, regarded as the leading practitioner of the autobiographical I-novel; his only full-length novel, A Dark Night's Passing, was completed in 1937.
Shiga toxin
Shiga toxin (Stx, verotoxin, Shiga-like toxin): AB5 cytotoxin of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 and STEC that cleaves adenine 4324 in 28S rRNA after Gb3 binding and retrograde transport, causing HUS; Stx1 and Stx2 subtypes differ in potency.
Shigai Khan
Shigai Khan (Шығай хан) was a Kazakh khan who ruled the Kazakh Khanate from about 1580 to 1582 and submitted to Abdullah Khan II of Bukhara.
Shigaraki Palace
Shigaraki Palace (Shigaraki-no-miya), also known as Kōga Palace, was a palace of Emperor Shōmu in present Kōka City, Shiga Prefecture, serving as Japan's imperial seat in 745.
Shigaraki ware
Shigaraki ware (信楽焼, Shigaraki-yaki) is Japanese stoneware from Shigaraki in Shiga Prefecture, one of the Six Ancient Kilns, known for unglazed wood-fired surfaces with natural ash glaze.
Shigeaki Kato
Shigeaki Kato (加藤 茂明) is a Japanese molecular endocrinologist at Fukushima Medical University known for cloning the vitamin D-activating enzyme gene and linking it to hereditary rickets.
Shigefumi Mori
Shigefumi Mori (森 重文), born 1951 in Nagoya, is a Japanese algebraic geometer who won the Fields Medal in 1990 for the minimal model program.
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
Shigehiro Yamaguchi (山口 茂弘) is a Japanese materials chemist, professor at Nagoya University, who builds functional π-electron materials around boron, silicon, and phosphorus, including blue OLED emitters used in smartphones.
Shigekazu Nagata
Shigekazu Nagata (長田重一) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University known for identifying Fas ligand and Fas and linking failed apoptosis to autoimmune disease.
Shigeki Kawai
Shigeki Kawai (川井 茂樹) is a Japanese surface chemist who leads the Nanoprobe Group at NIMS in Tsukuba, known for the 2016 superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold.
Shigeki Matsunaga
Shigeki Matsunaga (松永 茂樹) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University since 2023, known for the 2013 first report of Cp*Co(III)-catalyzed C–H activation.
Shigella
Shigella, a Gram-negative bacterium causing shigellosis (bacillary dysentery); four species including S. flexneri and S. sonnei; ~270 million annual cases, no licensed vaccine, rising XDR strains.
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga's bacillus, Bacillus dysenteriae) is serogroup A of the Shigella genus, discovered by Kiyoshi Shiga in 1898; its type 1 serotype produces Shiga toxin and causes deadly dysentery epidemics.
Shigella flexneri
Shigella flexneri, a Gram-negative enterobacterium, is the leading cause of shigellosis in developing countries, with up to 23 O-antigen serotypes, widespread multidrug resistance, seven phylogenetic groups, and no licensed vaccine.
Shigella sonnei
Shigella sonnei is a Gram-negative, single-serotype Shigella species causing shigellosis (bacillary dysentery), named after Carl Olaf Sonne (1906). Leading Shigella in developed countries, it encodes a T6SS and shows rising ciprofloxacin and multidrug resistance.
Shigellosis
Shigellosis, Shigella infection, bacillary dysentery: bacterial diarrheal disease from Shigella species, causing bloody diarrhea, fever, and tenesmus; usually self-limited in 5-7 days but increasingly drug-resistant, with ciprofloxacin and azithromycin as recommended treatments.
Shigemitsu Mamoru
Shigemitsu Mamoru (重光葵) was a Japanese diplomat who signed Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945 and later helped Japan join the United Nations.
Shigeno Yasutsugu
Shigeno Yasutsugu (重野安繹, 1827 to 1910) was a Japanese historian of the late Edo and Meiji periods who led compilation of the official chronicle Dai Nihon Hennenshi.
Shigenobu Nagamori
Shigenobu Nagamori (永守重信) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the motor maker Nidec in Kyoto in 1973 and built it into the world's largest maker of small precision motors.
Shigeo Arai
Shigeo Arai (新井茂雄) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer who won relay gold and 100 m bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and died in the war in 1944.
Shigeo Fukuda
Shigeo Fukuda (福田繁雄) was a Japanese graphic designer, poster artist, and sculptor known for posters using optical illusion and figure-ground reversal, including the anti-war Victory 1945.
Shigeo Koyasu
Shigeo Koyasu (小安 重夫) is a Japanese immunologist, born in Tokyo in 1955, who discovered ILC2 natural helper cells and leads the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology.