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Montreal General Hospital
The Montreal General Hospital is a bilingual academic hospital in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1821 and now one of the six sites of the McGill University Health Centre.
Monty Don
Monty Don (George Montague Don, born 1955) is a British organic gardener, writer and lead presenter of BBC Gardeners' World since 2003, filmed at his Herefordshire garden Longmeadow; OBE, RHS Victoria Medal of Honour, author of 21 books.
Monty Jones
Monty Jones was a Sierra Leonean plant breeder who developed NERICA, the New Rice for Africa, and in 2004 became the first African to win the World Food Prize.
Monty Krieger
Monty Krieger is an American molecular biologist, Whitehead Professor at MIT, known for genetic work on the LDL receptor pathway and for identifying SR-BI, the first molecularly defined HDL receptor.
Monty Roberts
Monty Roberts (1935–2026), California horse trainer and author of The Man Who Listens to Horses, created the trademarked Join-Up round pen method; patronized by Queen Elizabeth II, widely adopted, and scientifically debated.
Monuron
Monuron, chemically N′-(4-chlorophenyl)-N,N-dimethylurea, is a substituted-urea herbicide first synthesized by du Pont researchers in 1951 that kills plants by blocking photosynthesis, canceled by the EPA in 1977.
Monya Baker
Monya Baker is a US-based science journalist who edited technology features at Nature and Nature Methods from 2007 to 2022 and led Nature's 2016 reproducibility survey of 1,576 scientists.
Moo Deng (หมูเด้ง)
Moo Deng (หมูเด้ง), born 2024, is a female pygmy hippo at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo who became a global viral celebrity in September 2024, boosting zoo visitors, merchandise, and attention to the endangered pygmy hippopotamus.
Mood disorder
Mood disorder: group of mental health conditions, mainly depressive disorders (major depression, dysthymia) and bipolar disorders (bipolar I, II, cyclothymia), defined by persistent or episodic disturbance of mood, with DSM-5/ICD classification, genetic and environmental causes, and psychotherapy, medication, and brain stimulation treatments.
Mood Disorder Questionnaire
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a brief self-report screening tool for bipolar disorder, developed by Robert Hirschfeld and colleagues and introduced in 2000. It has 13 yes/no symptom items and takes about five minutes.
Mood stabilizer
Mood stabilizer: medications for bipolar disorder, mainly lithium, anticonvulsants (valproate, lamotrigine, carbamazepine), and antipsychotics; lithium is the only agent meeting the strict treat-and-prevent-both-polarities definition.
Mood swing
Mood swings are sudden mood changes driven by shifting neurotransmitter levels, common in adolescence, pregnancy, and menopause, and caused by conditions like thyroid disease, PMDD, sleep loss, or bipolar disorder.
MOONRISE trial
MOONRISE (Milk Outcomes Following Oral Nicotinamide Riboside Supplementation in the NICU Environment) is a UC Davis double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled pilot feasibility trial (NCT04614714) testing 250 mg/day nicotinamide riboside for 14 days to increase milk production in mothers of NICU-hospitalized infants.
Moorean tree snail extinctions
The Moorean tree snail extinctions were the loss of all nine Partula and Samoana tree snail species on Moorea within a decade of the predatory snail Euglandina rosea's 1977 introduction.
Mooren ulcer
Mooren ulcer (ulcere de Mooren), also called rodent ulcer, is a rare idiopathic autoimmune peripheral ulcerative keratitis of the cornea, diagnosed by exclusion, bilateral in about one third of cases, treated with a stepladder immunosuppressive approach.
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, founded 1804-1805 by John Cunningham Saunders, is the world's oldest eye hospital, now an NHS foundation trust on City Road with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
Moorland
Moorland: open, treeless upland vegetation of heather, bogs and grasses on peaty soils, mostly above 200 m in Britain and Ireland, which holds more heather moorland than anywhere else; managed by grazing and burning, valued for peat carbon, and increasingly restored after wildfire.
Moosa Mohammadi
Moosa Mohammadi is an Iranian-born structural biologist at Oujiang Laboratory known for nearly three decades of work determining structures of fibroblast growth factors and their receptors.
Moose
The moose (Alces alces), called Eurasian elk in Europe, is the largest living member of the deer family, browsing boreal forests across the Northern Hemisphere.
Mór Kaposi
Mór Kaposi, born Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), was a Hungarian-born dermatologist who led the Vienna dermatology clinic, described Kaposi's sarcoma in 1872, and pioneered lupus research.
Moraceae
Moraceae, the mulberry family, is a tropical Rosales family of trees, shrubs, and figs with milky latex and stipular scars, sister to Urticaceae, about 47 accepted genera and over 1,000 species.
Morag Park
Morag Park is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at McGill University in Montreal, known for her work on the MET oncogene and the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer.
Moral injury
Moral injury is lasting psychological harm from committing, witnessing, or being victimized by acts that violate deeply held moral beliefs, first described in military veterans.
Moran Cerf
Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who studies decision-making by recording individual neurons in epilepsy patients, and taught marketing at Northwestern's Kellogg School from 2013 to 2022.
Moraxella
Moraxella, formerly including Branhamella, is a genus of gram-negative aerobic Moraxellaceae bacteria from mucous membranes of humans and animals; M. catarrhalis is a major respiratory pathogen with about 95% beta-lactam-resistant isolates.
Moraxella catarrhalis
Moraxella catarrhalis (formerly Branhamella catarrhalis) is a Gram-negative human-restricted diplococcus of the Moraxellaceae causing otitis media, sinusitis, and COPD exacerbations; most isolates produce BRO beta-lactamases and no vaccine exists.
Moray eel
Moray eels (family Muraenidae), over 200 species of benthic predatory eels, are known for raptorial pharyngeal jaws that shoot forward to swallow prey, nocturnal crevice hunting, and cooperative hunting with groupers.
Morbillivirosis
Morbillivirosis (canids and felids), also called canine distemper (CDV), is a non-WOAH-listed wildlife disease caused by Morbillivirus genus paramyxoviruses, affecting canids, felids, mustelids, and seals, reported voluntarily to WOAH via WAHIS-Wild.
Morbillivirus
Morbillivirus: genus of Paramyxoviridae (Orthoparamyxovirinae) negative-sense RNA viruses; 10 species including measles virus (Morbillivirus hominis), canine distemper, rinderpest, and PPRV; SLAMF1/NECTIN4 receptors, no neuraminidase.
Morbillivirus canis
Morbillivirus canis (Canine morbillivirus, canine distemper virus, CDV) is an enveloped negative-sense RNA paramyxovirus causing highly contagious, often fatal distemper in dogs, ferrets, and many carnivores; prevented by core MLV or recombinant vaccines.