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AlphaLISA
AlphaLISA is a bead-based, no-wash immunoassay used to detect analytes in biological samples; PerkinElmer introduced it in 2008 as a faster alternative to ELISA.
Alphamab Oncology (康宁杰瑞)
Alphamab Oncology (康宁杰瑞) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company in Suzhou that develops bispecific antibodies and antibody–drug conjugates for cancer, listed in Hong Kong since 2019.
AlphaMissense
AlphaMissense is a Google DeepMind AI model, adapted from AlphaFold, that predicts the pathogenicity of missense variants; it released predictions for all 71 million possible human missense variants in 2023.
Alphapapillomavirus 9
Alphapapillomavirus 9 (alpha-9) is an ICTV papillomavirus species in genus Alphapapillomavirus with type member HPV16 (K02718) plus HPV31, 33, 35, 52, 58, 67; these high-risk types cause 75% of invasive cervical cancers.
AlphaPilot Challenge
The AlphaPilot Challenge, launched in 2018 by Lockheed Martin and the Drone Racing League, drew 424 teams to race AI-piloted drones autonomously for a $1 million prize.
Alphapithovirus
Alphapithovirus, formerly known as Pithovirus, is a genus of giant double-stranded DNA viruses that infect amoebae; its type strain was revived in 2014 from 30,000-year-old Siberian permafrost.
Alphapolyomavirus quintihominis
Alphapolyomavirus quintihominis, Human polyomavirus 5 (HPyV5), is an ICTV polyomavirus species infecting humans, genus Alphapolyomavirus, family Polyomaviridae, reference strain HM011556.
AlphaPose
AlphaPose is an open-source deep learning system for multi-person human pose estimation that detects people in images and video and returns their body keypoints as skeletons.
AlphaProof
AlphaProof is a Google DeepMind system, announced in 2024, that proves mathematical statements in Lean; with AlphaGeometry 2 it scored 28 of 42 at the 2024 IMO, a silver-medal result.
Alphaproteobacteria
Alphaproteobacteria: a class of Pseudomonadota bacteria including Rickettsiales pathogens, nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, Pelagibacter oligotrophs, and the mitochondrial sister lineage; phylogeny revised in 2019.
Alpharetta, Georgia
Alpharetta, Georgia: a Fulton County city in metro Atlanta, incorporated 1858 as seat of old Milton County, population 65,818 (2020), now a major Southeast technology hub with about 700 tech firms.
Alphas
Alphas (2011-2012) is a Syfy science fiction drama created by Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, also known by its development title Section 8, about a Department of Defense team of people with superhuman abilities led by David Strathairn's Dr. Lee Rosen; it ran 24 episodes over two seasons before cancellation in January 2013.
AlphaScreen
AlphaScreen, short for Amplified Luminescent Proximity Homogeneous Assay, is a bead-based, homogeneous proximity assay that detects biomolecular interactions in microplates, commercialized by PerkinElmer in 1999 for drug discovery and high-throughput screening.
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a New York-based market intelligence and search platform founded in 2011 by Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan, valued at $7.5 billion in 2026.
AlphaStar
AlphaStar is a reinforcement-learning agent built by Google DeepMind to play StarCraft II, first shown defeating professional players in December 2018 and rated at Grandmaster level by August 2019.
AlphaTensor
AlphaTensor is a deep reinforcement learning agent built by Google DeepMind and announced in October 2022 that searches for faster matrix multiplication algorithms by playing a single-player tensor game.
Alphavedic
Alphavedic is a bootstrapped, Mumbai-based Indian beauty and personal care brand founded by Shrey Jain in 2019, selling ayurvedic hair and skin care products and reaching profitability without external funding.
Alphaville (band)
Alphaville is a German synth-pop band from Münster, formed in 1981 by Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, known for "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", and "Forever Young".
Alphaville (film)
Alphaville (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 French-Italian science fiction noir, his only sci-fi film, starring Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution against the Alpha 60 computer; it won the 1965 Berlin Golden Bear.
Alphavirus chikungunya
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, is a mosquito-borne virus spread by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus that causes fever and severe, sometimes chronic joint pain; first identified in Tanzania in 1952, now reported in 119 countries and territories.
Alphavirus semliki
Alphavirus semliki (Semliki Forest virus, SFV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus of Togaviridae isolated in Uganda in 1942; mild in humans, encephalitic in rodents, and a widely used gene-expression and vaccine vector.
Alphavirus sindbis
Alphavirus sindbis (Sindbis virus, SINV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus, type species of the genus, causing Pogosta, Ockelbo, or Karelian fever; first isolated in Egypt in 1952, widespread across the Old World.
Alphavirus venezuelan
Alphavirus venezuelan is an ICTV alphavirus species (Togaviridae) containing Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), with epizootic IAB/IC subtypes amplified by equids and enzootic ID/IE subtypes cycling in rodents and Culex mosquitoes.
AlphaZero
AlphaZero is DeepMind's 2017 reinforcement-learning system that taught itself chess, shogi, and Go from random play using neural networks and Monte-Carlo Tree Search, beating Stockfish 8 (28 wins, 0 losses in 100 games) and Elmo.
Alpheidae
Alpheidae, commonly called snapping shrimp or pistol shrimp, is a family of about 600 caridean shrimp species whose oversized claw snaps shut with a loud click.
Alpheratz
Alpheratz, also known as Alpha Andromedae or Sirrah, is the brightest star of Andromeda, a blue subgiant about 97 light-years away marking one corner of the Great Square of Pegasus.
Alphesiboea Linea
Alphesiboea Linea is a 1,438 km linea (linear fracture feature) on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 25.1°S, 175.9°W; IAU-approved in 1985, named for a nephew of Europa in Greek mythology.
Alpheus Branch
Alpheus Branch (1843–1893) was an American banker, merchant, and Confederate veteran in Wilson, North Carolina, who co-founded the private banking firm Branch and Hadley in 1872, which became BB&T.
Alpheus Colles
Alpheus Colles is an IAU-approved 1985 hill group (colles) on Mars, about 628 km across, forming the rough central plateau in the northwest interior of Hellas basin near 39.7S, 59.7E.
Alpheus Hyatt
Alpheus Hyatt (1838–1902) was an American zoologist and invertebrate paleontologist, a recognized authority on fossil cephalopods, a main proponent of neo-Lamarckian evolution, and founder of The American Naturalist.