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Milt
Milt is the sperm-containing seminal fluid of male fish, shed at spawning. Also called shirako in Japanese cuisine, it is used to fertilize farmed fish eggs, eaten as food, and processed into protamines for heparin overdose treatment.
Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy
The Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy is a GMP-compliant, closed, automated cell manufacturing instrument made by Miltenyi Biotec of Germany and launched in 2013, used to produce cell and gene therapies such as CAR T cells.
Milton Allen Northrup
Milton Allen Northrup, known as M. Allen Northrup, is an American bioengineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the diagnostics company Cepheid and first demonstrated PCR in a micromachined silicon chip.
Milton Alter
Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.
Milton C. Weinstein
Milton C. Weinstein is an American health economist at Harvard who developed cost-effectiveness analysis and decision science in medicine, co-chairing the 1996 U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness.
Milton H. Erickson
Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, father of modern clinical hypnosis and founder of Ericksonian hypnotherapy; permissive, indirect, utilization-based hypnosis; founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; influenced brief, strategic, and solution-focused therapy.
Milton H. Saier
Milton H. Saier is a professor of molecular biology at the University of California San Diego, known for the Transporter Classification Database and the major facilitator superfamily of transport proteins.
Milton H. Werner
Milton H. Werner is an American molecular biologist and structural biologist known for determining NMR solution structures of protein–DNA complexes, including the human SRY–DNA complex, and later founded Inhibikase Therapeutics.
Milton J. Cormier
Milton J. Cormier is an American biochemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia whose laboratory performed the first cloning of a bioluminescent protein gene.
Milton J. Schlesinger
Milton J. Schlesinger was an American molecular biologist and virologist, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1979 work led to the discovery of protein S-palmitoylation.
Milton Packer
Milton Packer (M. Packer) is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for landmark heart failure trials and the neurohormonal hypothesis.
Milton W. Slein
Milton W. Slein was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who co-authored the 1947 discovery that insulin counteracts pituitary inhibition of the hexokinase reaction.
Miltonia spectabilis
Miltonia spectabilis Lindl. is an orchid species native to southeast Brazil, described by John Lindley in 1837. A pseudobulbous epiphyte with single flowers to 10 cm; its former variety moreliana is now the separate species Miltonia moreliana.
Miltos Tsiantis
Miltos Tsiantis is a plant developmental biologist studying leaf shape evolution, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne since 2013.
Milvago chimango
Milvago chimango, the chimango caracara, a 40 cm brown South American falconid from Paraguay and Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego; ground-foraging carrion feeder, Not Threatened, known for social learning and urban adaptability.
Milvexian
Milvexian (BMS-986177, JNJ-70033093) is an investigational oral, small-molecule, reversible direct factor XIa inhibitor from Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen; it prevented VTE after knee arthroplasty in phase 2 but failed in the phase 3 LIBREXIA ACS trial.
Milvus
Milvus (Lacépède, 1799) is a genus of Accipitridae kites with three species: black kite Milvus migrans, red kite M. milvus, and yellow-billed kite M. aegyptius; widespread Old World scavenging raptors.
Milwaukee public museum herbarium
Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium (MIL), the plant, fungi, and lichen collection of the Milwaukee Public Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; about 200,000 specimens, over half from Wisconsin, begun with an 1883 donation of 5,190 specimens, with the Huron H. Smith ethnobotanical collection among its notable holdings.
Mim2
Mim2 (MIM2, YLR099W-A) is an 87-residue single-pass mitochondrial outer membrane protein of budding yeast that with Mim1 forms the fungal MIM complex, the insertase importing alpha-helical outer membrane proteins such as Tom20, Ugo1, and Fzo1; distinct from the ESCRT MIM2 motif.
Mimetus
Mimetus (pirate spider genus, Mimetidae), type species M. syllepsicus Hentz 1832. Araneophagic web-invaders using aggressive mimicry, spine-covered legs, and spider-specific venom; prey are mainly araneids and theridiids; genus not monophyletic.
Mimic (film)
Mimic (1997) is Guillermo del Toro's English-language debut, a Dimension Films horror film starring Mira Sorvino, based on Donald A. Wollheim's 1942 short story about engineered Judas Breed insects that evolve to mimic humans; it grossed $25.5 million and spawned two direct-to-video sequels.
Mimic octopus
Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), Indo-West Pacific sand-dwelling octopus discovered in 1998 off Sulawesi and described in 2005; performs dynamic mimicry of venomous animals and flounder-like swimming, unlike any same-named species.
Mimicry
Mimicry, also called Batesian, Müllerian, aggressive, or rewarding mimicry, is an evolved resemblance between a mimic and a model that deceives or informs a receiver, benefiting the mimic; defined by shared receivers, signal deceptiveness, and frequency-dependent selection.
Mimivirus
Mimivirus (Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus, species Mimivirus bradfordmassiliense) is a giant dsDNA virus of the Mimiviridae infecting Acanthamoeba, with a 700 nm particle, 1.2 Mb genome, and viral translation genes.
Mimomys
Mimomys was an extinct genus of arvicoline rodents across Eurasia and North America from about 5.3 Ma to the Middle Pleistocene, ancestral stock of voles.
Mimon
Mimon (golden bats) is a genus of Neotropical phyllostomid bats with two species, M. bennettii (Southern Golden Bat) and M. cozumelae, ranging from southeastern Mexico to southern Brazil; insect-gleaning, cave and hollow-log roosting, molecularly shown polyphyletic with Gardnerycteris split off.
Mimosa
Mimosa is a pantropical legume genus of over 400 prickly, touch-sensitive plants, type species Mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant whose leaflets fold within seconds via pulvinar turgor loss and action potentials.
Mimosa pudica
Mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant or touch-me-not, is a Fabaceae herb native to Mexico and tropical America whose leaves fold when touched; it is a tropical invasive weed and medicinal plant.
MIMOSA study
MIMOSA study: name shared by several trials, chiefly MIMOSA-1 (NCT04368468), a retrospective Toulouse study of immune microenvironment changes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer; also an abagovomab ovarian cancer trial and a monalizumab HER2+ trial.
Mimosa tenuiflora
Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir., synonym Mimosa hostilis, jurema-preta or tepezcohuite, is a Fabaceae shrub or tree from Mexico to Brazil whose tannin-rich bark is used for wounds and burns; clinical trial results in venous ulcers conflict.