Life and health

Mimosa tenuiflora extract

Mimosa tenuiflora extract (Mimosa hostilis extract, black jurema, tepescohuite) is a tannin-rich bark extract used as a natural fungicide and biocide, unapproved in the EU, and studied for wound healing, antimicrobial, and larvicidal effects.

Mimulus

Mimulus (monkeyflowers), a Phrymaceae genus of roughly 160-200 species with radiations in western North America and Australia; a classic model system for adaptation, speciation, and pollinator-shift studies, later split into Erythranthe and Diplacus.

Mimus

Mimus (mockingbirds) is a genus of 14 American passerine birds in family Mimidae, including the Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos; former genera Nesomimus and Mimodes are now synonyms, and four species are endemic to Galapagos.

Oct 20, 2026

Mimusops

Mimusops, a Sapotaceae tree genus of 49 Old World tropical species including M. elengi and M. zeyheri; native Africa to Australia, introduced to Florida and Hawaii; distinct from Diospyros mimusops.

Oct 10, 2026

Min Chiu Li

Min Chiu Li (李敏求; 1919–1980) was an oncologist who produced the first drug cure of a solid cancer, metastatic choriocarcinoma, at the National Cancer Institute in 1956.

Min Chueh Chang

Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991) was a Chinese-born American reproductive biologist who co-discovered sperm capacitation, achieved the first mammal in vitro fertilization in rabbits in 1959, and enabled the contraceptive pill.

Min Dong

Min Dong is a microbiologist and Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying C. difficile toxin receptors and engineering botulinum toxins.

Min Gyu Lee

Min Gyu Lee is a South Korean-trained molecular biologist who studies histone methylation and demethylation in cancer, and is a Professor of Molecular Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Sep 20, 2026

Min Han

Min Han is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, an HHMI Investigator from 1997 to 2018 known for Ras signaling and nutrient-sensing research in C. elegans.

Min Yu

Min Yu is a Chinese-born physician-scientist studying circulating tumor cells, whose blood-based liquid biopsy work guides treatment of metastatic cancer; she won a 2015 NIH New Innovator Award.

Min Zhuo

Min Zhuo is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and professor of physiology at the University of Toronto, known for research on the synaptic mechanisms of chronic pain, memory, and emotion.

Oct 10, 2026

Mina Bissell

Mina Bissell is an Iranian-born biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that a cell's microenvironment helps determine whether it becomes cancerous, proposing the dynamic reciprocity model.

Sep 20, 2026

Mina J. Bissell

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-born American cell and cancer biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that the extracellular matrix and microenvironment can restrain or reverse malignancy.

Minamata disease

Minamata disease (水俣病) is methylmercury poisoning from contaminated seafood, first recognized 1956 in Kumamoto, Japan, caused by Chisso and Showa Denko acetaldehyde wastewater; it prompted the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury.

Minaprine

Minaprine (Cantor) was an aminopyridazine antidepressant acting on serotonergic and dopaminergic transmission, launched 1972 and withdrawn from the French market in 1995 after poison-center data linked its 100 mg tablets to seizures in overdose.

Mind

Mind (National Association for Mental Health) is the mental health charity for England and Wales, founded 1946, charity no. 219830, running the Infoline 0300 123 3393, a federation of ~100 local Minds, and campaigns; distinct from Mind Sweden and Mind Australia.

MIND diet

MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay): a brain-health hybrid diet with 15 components. Observational studies link it to slower decline and lower dementia risk, but the 2023 randomized trial found no cognitive benefit over control.

Mind uploading

Mind uploading, also called whole brain emulation, is a proposed process for copying a person's memories, personality, and mental attributes from their biological brain onto a computer.

Mind-Body Therapies

Mind-body therapies are techniques that use brain-body interactions to improve health, classified as complementary and alternative medicine; examples include meditation, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture, massage, and spinal manipulation.

Sep 29, 2026

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an eight-session group psychotherapy combining mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy, developed in the 1990s to prevent depressive relapse in recurrent depression.

MINDY and atypical deubiquitinases

MINDY and atypical deubiquitinases are ubiquitin-cleaving enzymes whose catalytic domains fall outside the four classic DUB families, including the K48-selective MINDY proteases discovered in 2016, K63-selective ZUP1, and deubiquitinases encoded by viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

MINDY deubiquitinase

MINDY deubiquitinases (MIU-containing novel DUB family, MINDY1-4B) are K48-polyubiquitin-specific cysteine protease DUBs with a unique fold, Cys-His-Thr triad, Cys-loop autoinhibition, and distal exo-cleavage of long chains.

Mineral (nutrient)

Mineral (nutrient): dietary chemical elements, macrominerals (calcium, potassium) and trace minerals (iron, zinc, selenium), needed for body functions; covered by DRIs/DRVs, supplements, bioavailability, and USPSTF prevention evidence.

Mineral excesses

Mineral excesses: ICD-11 section under Specific nutrient excesses covering iron overload, hypercalcaemia, zinc, sodium chloride, fluorine, aluminium, and manganese excess; also a public health risk from overlapping micronutrient interventions.

Mineral-enriched Aspergillus oryzae

Mineral-enriched Aspergillus oryzae (Koji Mineral, powdered A. oryzae with minerals): dried koji-mold biomass grown in mineral-enriched media to carry iron, zinc, calcium, and other minerals; GRAS Notice GRN 829, FDA no-questions letter December 9, 2019.