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Elon University
Elon University (formerly Elon College), a private coeducational university in Elon, North Carolina, founded 1889 by the Christian Church. About 7,000 students; Division I Phoenix athletics; merger with Queens University of Charlotte announced 2025.
eLong
eLong (艺龙, formerly e龙网) is a Chinese online travel company founded in 1999, once China's second-largest online travel agency, now the hotel brand of Tongcheng-Elong.
Elonga
Elonga is a novel in French by the Gabonese writer Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri, published in Paris in 1980 and widely regarded as the first novel by a Gabonese woman.
Elongated labia
Elongated labia, also called labia minora hypertrophy, are inner vaginal folds extending beyond the labia majora; a common nonpathologic anatomical variation, culturally valued in parts of Eastern and Southern Africa, and increasingly targeted by labiaplasty surgery.
Elongated Man
The Elongated Man, Ralph Dibny, is a DC Comics stretching detective hero created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in The Flash #112 (1960), powered by Gingold soda, husband of Sue Dibny, unlike Plastic Man.
Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 2
ELOVL2 (Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 2) is an endoplasmic reticulum fatty acid elongase acting on C20–C22 polyunsaturated acyl-CoAs; it converts DPA to 24:5n-3, the penultimate precursor of DHA, and is essential for DHA synthesis.
Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 4
ELOVL4 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 4, gene on 6q14) is an ER membrane elongase making very long chain (C28-C38) saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in retina, brain, skin, and testes; mutations cause Stargardt-like macular dystrophy, SCA34, and neuro-ichthyosis.
Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 6
ELOVL6 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6, EC 2.3.1.199) is an ER enzyme elongating C12-C16 saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, palmitate to stearate; an SREBP-1c/ChREBP-regulated target studied in insulin resistance, NASH, pulmonary fibrosis, skin inflammation, and cancer.
Elongator complex protein 1
ELP1 (formerly IKBKAP, IKAP) encodes elongator complex protein 1, the 1,332-amino-acid scaffold subunit of the six-subunit Elongator tRNA-modification complex on chromosome 9q31; mutations cause familial dysautonomia.
Elongin BC and Polycomb repressive complex 2-associated protein EPOP-like
EPOP-like names proteins homologous to EPOP (C17orf96, esPRC2p48), a mammalian PRC2.1 accessory subunit with an N-terminal BC-box binding Elongin BC and a C-terminal SUZ12-binding region.
Elopak
Elopak is a Norwegian supplier of carton packaging and filling machines for liquid food, founded in 1957 and best known for the Pure-Pak gable-top carton sold worldwide.
Elopement
Elopement: running away secretly to marry, historically without parental consent; now also a small intentional wedding with few or no guests, plus an unrelated care-facility departure sense.
Elora, Ontario
Elora, Ontario: historic village in Centre Wellington, Wellington County, founded 1832 by William Gilkison on the Grand River; known for the Elora Gorge, Elora Mill Hotel & Spa, and the Elora Festival.
ELoran
ELoran, also known as Enhanced LORAN, is a terrestrial navigation and timing system at 100 kHz and a modernized successor to Loran-C that keeps working when GPS is jammed.
Elosulfase alfa
Elosulfase alfa (Vimizim, BioMarin) is recombinant N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase, weekly IV enzyme replacement therapy for MPS IVA (Morquio A); FDA approved 14 February 2014, improves walking and lung function, boxed warning for anaphylaxis.
Eloy (band)
Eloy is a German progressive rock band founded in Hannover in 1969 by Frank Bornemann, named after the Eloi of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine; its 1977 album Ocean is the best-selling German prog album.
Eloy Alfaro
Eloy Alfaro, also known as Durán, is a city and canton in Guayas, Ecuador, across the Guayas River from Guayaquil, named for President Eloy Alfaro and home to over 300,000 people.
Eloy Casagrande
Eloy Casagrande (Elóy Casagrande Lopes), Brazilian drummer born 1991 in Santo André, Sepultura's drummer 2011–2024 and Slipknot's drummer since April 2024; won Batuka at 13 and Modern Drummer's Undiscovered Drummer Contest at 14.
Eloy de Jong
Eloy de Jong is a Dutch singer, born in 1973, who sang in the 1990s boyband Caught in the Act and later became a German-language Schlager solo artist.
Elphaba
Elphaba Thropp, created by Gregory Maguire in the 1995 novel Wicked, reimagines the Wicked Witch of the West; lead of the 2003 Broadway musical and the Cynthia Erivo films.
Elphidium
Elphidium (de Montfort, 1808) is a genus of benthic foraminifera in family Elphidiidae, order Rotaliida, with planispiral involute tests, retral processes, and canal systems; over 60 morphospecies in estuaries and coastal seas worldwide.
Elpidia Carrillo
Elpidia Carrillo (born 1961) is a Mexican actress and director from Parácuaro, Michoacán, known for Anna in Predator (1987, 1990), Salvador (1986), Nine Lives (2005), and Blue Beetle (2023), and for founding the Festival Internacional de Cine sin Cines.
Elpidio Quirino
Elpidio Quirino (1890–1956), Filipino statesman and sixth president of the Philippines (1948–1953): vice president and foreign secretary under Roxas, wartime resistance leader, Bell Mission economic recovery, defeated by Magsaysay in 1953.
Elpis Macula
Elpis Macula is a 500 km wide dark albedo feature (macula) on Titan at about 31°N, 27°W, adopted by the IAU in 2006 and named for the Greek goddess of happiness and hope.
Elpiscience (科望医药)
Elpiscience (科望医药, Elpiscience Biopharmaceuticals) is a Shanghai clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in June 2017 by Darren Ji, Hongtao Lu, and David Shen that develops bispecific macrophage-engaging cancer immunotherapies.
Elranatamab
Elranatamab, sold as Elrexfio, is a humanized bispecific antibody developed by Pfizer that binds BCMA on myeloma cells and CD3 on T cells, approved in 2023 for relapsed multiple myeloma.
Elric of Melniboné
Elric of Melniboné is Michael Moorcock's albino sorcerer-emperor anti-hero, created in 1961 as a deliberate anti-Conan, wielder of the soul-drinking sword Stormbringer, star of a six-novel saga and many adaptations.
Elrick Williams
Elrick Williams is an American futures trader who co-founded the Chicago high-frequency trading firm Allston Trading in 2002 and served as its chief executive officer.
ELROB
ELROB, the European Land Robot Trial, is a European field trial for unmanned ground systems held since 2006 by Fraunhofer FKIE for the German Armed Forces.
Elrond
Elrond Half-elven (Peredhel), son of Eärendil and Elwing, twin of Elros, is Tolkien's Lord of Rivendell, keeper of Vilya, herald of Gil-galad, father of Arwen, foster-father of Aragorn, and a bridge across the First, Second, and Third Ages.