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Strand displacement amplification
Strand displacement amplification (SDA) is an isothermal DNA amplification method, reported in 1992, that uses a nicking enzyme and a strand-displacing polymerase to copy a target sequence exponentially at a single constant temperature.
Strand displacement reaction
A strand displacement reaction is a nucleic acid reaction in which an invading single-stranded DNA or RNA molecule binds a complementary duplex and displaces one of its prebound strands.
STRAND Festival
STRAND Festival, also known as Strand Fesztivál, is a major Hungarian music festival held each August in Zamárdi on Lake Balaton, launched in 2013 and drawing record crowds of more than 94,000 in 2026.
Strand swamp
Strand swamp (also cypress strand) is a Florida natural community: a shallow, elongated, forested wetland channel dominated by bald cypress, with 200-300 day hydroperiod, peat-over-limestone soils, and rare fire, best exemplified by the Fakahatchee Strand.
Strand Theatre (Manhattan)
Strand Theatre (Manhattan), also the Mark Strand and later Warner Theatre, was America's first movie palace, a 2,989-seat 1914 Thomas Lamb theater at Broadway and 47th Street, demolished in 1987.
Strand Therapeutics
Strand Therapeutics is a Boston biotechnology company, founded in 2017 by MIT synthetic biologists Jake Becraft and Tasuku Kitada, that develops programmable mRNA cancer therapies.
Strand, London
The Strand, London: historic central London street between Charing Cross and Fleet Street, once the main street of Lundenwic, lined with Somerset House, King's College London, and Wren and Gibbs churches.
Strandbeest
Strandbeest, Dutch for "beach animal," is a series of wind-powered walking kinetic sculptures created since 1990 by Dutch artist Theo Jansen, built mostly from PVC tubing and moved by a leg linkage he designed.
Stranded (album)
Stranded (1973) is Roxy Music's third studio album, first after Brian Eno's departure, first UK number-one for the band, with Eddie Jobson joining and Ferry sharing songwriting with Mackay and Manzanera.
Stranded asset
A stranded asset is an asset that suffers an unanticipated or premature write-down or devaluation, chiefly fossil fuel reserves, power plants, and infrastructure that lose value under climate policy and shifting demand.
Stranded assets
Stranded assets are assets that suffer unanticipated or premature write-downs or devaluations, chiefly fossil fuel reserves and infrastructure that climate policy or technology change leaves unusable.
Stranded Deep
Stranded Deep, survival game by Beam Team Games, Pacific plane-crash island survival with crafting, rafts, and co-op; Steam Early Access Jan 23, 2015, 1.0 Aug 10, 2022, PS4/Xbox One Apr 21, 2020, Switch 2022.
Strange Angel
Strange Angel is an American historical drama series created by Mark Heyman for CBS All Access, based on George Pendle's biography of rocket engineer Jack Parsons. It ran two seasons, 17 episodes, from June 14, 2018 to July 25, 2019, and was canceled in November 2019.
Strange attractor
A strange attractor is an attractor of a dynamical system with a complicated, typically fractal structure rather than a point or closed curve, arising in chaotic systems whose long-term behavior appears unpredictable.
Strange Brew
Strange Brew (1983), full title The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, is an MGM comedy co-directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, loosely based on Hamlet, about two SCTV hosers foiling a brewery mind-control plot.
Strange but True (film)
Strange but True is a 2019 psychological thriller directed by Rowan Athale, adapted by Eric Garcia from John Searles' novel, starring Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Brian Cox, and Blythe Danner; Metascore 55, $343,038 worldwide gross.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson's 1886 Gothic novella, follows lawyer Utterson investigating Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, the same man; hugely successful, endlessly adapted, public domain.
Strange Days (film)
Strange Days is a 1995 dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett; a 1995 box-office flop ($7.3M gross) now a cult cyberpunk classic about SQUID experience recordings in 1999 Los Angeles.
Strange Days (The Doors album)
Strange Days is The Doors' second studio album, released by Elektra on September 25, 1967. Recorded at Sunset Sound on eight-track with a Moog synthesizer, it reached #3 on Billboard, went platinum, and includes "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times".
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital
Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital is a 2024 Philippine found footage horror film, a meta adaptation of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum directed by Kerwin Go, in which seven Filipino celebrities live-stream a ghost hunt at the abandoned Xinglin Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan; an MMFF 2024 entry released on Netflix in 2025.
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit is the 1939 anti-lynching protest song written as a poem by Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan), made famous by Billie Holiday at Café Society and on Commodore Records, her best-selling record and a civil rights landmark.
Strange Harvest (film)
Strange Harvest is a 2024 American horror mockumentary by Stuart Ortiz, also titled Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, following San Bernardino detectives hunting the ritualistic serial killer Mr. Shiny; released theatrically August 8, 2025.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is a 2025 documentary, also called Strange Journey, directed by Linus O'Brien, son of creator Richard O'Brien. It premiered at SXSW 2025, runs 89 minutes, and chronicles the Rocky Horror stage show, 1975 film, and midnight-screening cult phenomenon.
Strange loop
A strange loop is a hierarchical system that twists back on itself so moving through its levels returns to the start, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1979.
Strange Magic (film)
Strange Magic is a 2015 American computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, produced by Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic from a story by George Lucas.
Strange matter
Strange matter, also called strange quark matter, is hypothetical deconfined quark matter with nearly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks, possibly more stable than ordinary atomic nuclei.
Strange metal
A strange metal is a metallic state, found in strongly correlated electron materials such as cuprates and heavy-fermion compounds, whose resistivity grows linearly with temperature, defying Fermi-liquid theory.
Strange Music
Strange Music is an independent hip-hop record label in Lee's Summit, Missouri, founded by rapper Tech N9ne and businessman Travis O'Guin; its first release was Tech N9ne's Anghellic in 2001.
Strange Paradise
Strange Paradise: 1969–1970 Canadian gothic daily soap opera, the first Canadian daily serialized drama, inspired by Dark Shadows; 195 episodes starring Colin Fox as Jean Paul Desmond.
Strange Pictures
Strange Pictures (変な絵) is Uketsu's 2022 Japanese puzzle-horror novel, also called a sketch mystery, built around nine drawings; translated by Jim Rion (Pushkin Vertigo, 2025), it sold millions worldwide and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger.