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Stapuldencel
Stapuldencel (STAPULDENCEL-T, DCVAC/PCa) is SOTIO's autologous dendritic cell prostate cancer vaccine; its phase 3 VIABLE trial (NCT02111577, 1182 patients) showed no overall survival benefit over placebo with docetaxel.
Star
A star is a dense mass of hot gas that shines through nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium; the Sun, the nearest star, is powered this way.
STaR
STaR (Self-Taught Reasoner) is a 2022 method in which a language model improves its reasoning by fine-tuning on its own chain-of-thought rationales, kept only when they reach correct answers.
Star (2024 film)
Star (ஸ்டார்) is a 2024 Tamil coming-of-age romantic drama written and directed by Elan, starring Kavin as aspiring actor Kalai, with Lal, Aaditi Pohankar, and Preity Mukhundhan; released 10 May 2024, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, streaming on Prime Video.
Star (classification)
Star (classification): a grading system ranking hotels and other services into one-to-five star categories. Covers official schemes (India's Ministry of Tourism, Hotelstars Union, China's GB/T 14308), self-assigned US stars, MICHELIN Keys, and guest review scores.
Star (Disney+)
Star was the general entertainment brand tile on Disney+ outside the US, launched February 23, 2021, carrying mature content from 21st Century Fox studios; its Latin American sibling Star+ merged into Disney+ in June 2024, and Hulu replaced Star internationally on October 8, 2025.
Star (glyph)
Star (glyph): typographic star symbols, chiefly U+2605 BLACK STAR and asterisk forms; used for footnotes, ratings, the Moroccan flag, the ITU-T E.161 telephony star, and ancient Sumerian dingir.
Star (graph theory)
In graph theory, a star is a tree with one central vertex joined to every other vertex and no other edges, also called a claw, and it models hub-and-spoke networks.
Star (keelboat)
Star (keelboat): two-person one-design racing keelboat designed 1910 by Francis Sweisguth, fin keel with detached rudder; Olympic class 1932–2012 except 1976; governed by ISCYRA since 1922.
Star (TV series)
Star (Lee Daniels' Star) is a Fox musical drama created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy, airing 2016-2019 over three seasons about the Atlanta girl group Take 3, starring Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O'Grady, and Queen Latifah.
Star 80
Star 80 (1983) is Bob Fosse's final film, a biographical drama starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts as Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider, whose 1980 murder-suicide it dramatizes; released by Warner Bros., it earned Roberts a Golden Globe nomination.
Star Academy (music)
Star Academy, nicknamed Star Ac', is a French TF1 music talent show running since 2001, in which young singers train in a château and compete for a recording contract.
Star Academy Arab World (music)
Star Academy (ستار أكاديمي) was a pan-Arab reality music show on Lebanon's LBC from 2003, where viewers voted weekly; Egypt's Mohammed Attia won the first season.
Star Alliance
Star Alliance is the world's first and largest global airline alliance, launched in 1997 by five airlines led by United and Lufthansa, with 26 member airlines and over 1,150 destinations.
Star and crescent
The star and crescent is a motif of a star beside a crescent moon that serves today as a symbol of Islam and of Turkey.
Star Bandz
Star Bandz (Star Ana Flowers, born 2008) is a Chicago-area drill rapper from Sauk Village, Illinois, who broke out at 16 in 2024 with "Yea Yea," "My Baby," and the Priority Records mixtape Estrella, rapping without profanity.
Star Blazers
Star Blazers is the 1979 US syndicated English adaptation of the Japanese anime Uchū Senkan Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト), with renamed ship Argo, edited violence, and three sagas: Quest for Iscandar, Comet Empire, Bolar Wars.
Star Carr
Star Carr is an Early Mesolithic lakeside settlement in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, occupied around 9000 cal BC, famous for antler headdresses, barbed points, Britain's oldest house, and Europe's earliest carpentry.
Star catalogue
A star catalog is a systematic list of stars recording their positions on the sky and often their brightness and motion, serving as the reference framework for pointing telescopes.
Star Chamber
The Star Chamber was an English court, active from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, that sat without a jury and was abolished by Parliament in 1641.
Star Charge (星星充电) (Wanbang Digital Energy)
Star Charge (星星充电) is the EV charging brand of Wanbang Digital Energy, founded in 2014 in Changzhou, China, operating one of the country's two largest public charging networks.
Star chart
A star chart, also called a star map or sky chart, is a map of the night sky showing the positions of stars and other celestial objects.
Star Cinema
Star Cinema (ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.) is the leading Filipino film studio, founded 1993 in Quezon City; producer of Rewind, Hello, Love, Goodbye, and most top-grossing Philippine films.
Star Citizen
Star Citizen is Cloud Imperium Games' crowdfunded multiplayer space sim by Chris Roberts, announced October 10, 2012; it passed $1 billion from 6.5 million backers in 2026 while still in alpha, with Squadron 42 delayed.
Star City (TV series)
Star City is an Apple TV alternate-history drama (2026), a spinoff of For All Mankind from Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, showing the Soviet side of the space race after a Soviet first moon landing; eight episodes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Star City, Russia
Star City (Zvyozdny gorodok, Звёздный городок) is a closed ZATO settlement near Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, 25 km northeast of Moscow, home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center under Roscosmos, with centrifuge, hydrolab and planetarium, population roughly 5,000-7,000.
Star cluster
A star cluster, also called a stellar cluster or cluster of stars, is a group of stars born from the same gas cloud, divided into globular clusters, open clusters, and stellar associations.
Star Complex
Star Complex is a 24-hour casino in Myawaddy Township, Kayin State, Myanmar, on the Moei River across from Mae Sot, Thailand; opened late 2017, over 50 slot machines, Baccarat and Electronic Roulette, mainly Thai patrons. The name also refers to a Poipet casino precinct in Cambodia and other unrelated complexes.
Star counts
Star counts, also called star gauges, is an astronomical method that counts stars per unit area of sky to infer how stars are distributed in the Milky Way.
Star Destroyer
The Star Destroyer is a dagger-shaped capital ship used by the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic. It comes in various classes, including the massive Super Star Destroyer.