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Morris J. Karnovsky
Morris J. Karnovsky (1926–2018) was a South African-born American pathologist at Harvard Medical School who created the DAB tracer method and established the blood-brain barrier's endothelial nature.
Morris Pollard
Morris Pollard (1916–2011) was an American veterinary virologist and cancer researcher who directed the Lobund Laboratory at Notre Dame, studying leukemia and prostate cancer in germfree animals.
Morris Reichlin
Morris Reichlin (1934–2018) was an American rheumatologist and immunologist who discovered antibodies associated with lupus, including anti-Ro (SSA), and created the Reichlin Profile diagnostic test.
Morris Schambelan
Morris Schambelan is an American endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, based at San Francisco General Hospital, known for hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism and HIV wasting research.
Morris Schnitzer
Morris Schnitzer, born Moritz Israel, was a Canadian soil chemist at Agriculture Canada who shared the 1995 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his work on humic substances.
Morris Siegel
Morris Siegel was an American epidemiologist at the New York City Department of Health and SUNY Downstate who studied household polio spread and maternal virus diseases.
Morris Ziff
Morris Ziff (1913–2005) was an American rheumatologist who founded the Rheumatic Diseases Division at UT Southwestern in Dallas, traced rheumatoid factor to inflamed joints, and trained 131 fellows.
Mortality of autistic individuals
Mortality of autistic individuals: people with autism spectrum disorder die at about 2.4 times the general-population rate, with elevated suicide risk (RR 2.85, over 5 without intellectual disability), higher female risk, and life expectancy deficits of roughly 6 to 15 years in diagnosed groups.
Morten Frisch
Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist and physician at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for linking sexual behavior, infection, and cancer, including a 1997 anal cancer study.
Morten Meldal
Morten Meldal, born 1954 in Copenhagen, is a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing click chemistry.
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, born 1981, is a Danish synthetic biologist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for work on antibiotic resistance.
Morten Simonsen
Morten Simonsen (1921–2002) was a Danish physician and immunologist who described the graft-versus-host reaction, known as the Simonsen phenomenon, and built the first quantitative test of T lymphocytes.
Mortierella
Mortierella (Coemans, 1863) is a genus of soil-dwelling filamentous fungi in Mortierellaceae, NCBI taxonomy ID 4855. Polyphyletic and revised into 14 genera in 2020; M. alpina is the FDA-certified industrial source of arachidonic acid.
Mortierella polycephala
Mortierella polycephala (Coemans 1863) is a soil fungus, type species of the genus Mortierella and family Mortierellaceae, first isolated from a mushroom, distinguished by stalked chlamydospores (stylospores) and a sequenced JGI genome (strain KOD 948).
Mortierellomycotina
Mortierellomycotina (Mortierellales, Mortierellaceae) is a fungal subphylum of soil saprobes established in 2011, defined by columella-less sporangia and distinct zygospores; Mortierella alpina industrially produces arachidonic acid.
Mortimer B. Lipsett
Mortimer B. Lipsett (1921–1985) was an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the NIH who helped make choriocarcinoma the first cancer cured by chemotherapy alone, and held three NIH directorships.
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin (1926–2021) was an American neuropsychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health whose monkey lesion studies established how the brain organizes perception and memory.
Mortimer Poncz
Mortimer Poncz is an American pediatric hematologist and physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on congenital platelet disorders.
Mortimer Sackler
Mortimer Sackler, American physician and co-owner of Purdue Frederick and Purdue Pharma with brothers Arthur and Raymond; his branch of the family, its OxyContin litigation, and the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation philanthropy.
Morton Collins
Morton Collins was an American chemical engineer turned venture capitalist who founded Data Science Ventures in 1968 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Morton I. Grossman
Morton I. Grossman (1919–1981) was an American gastroenterologist and gastrointestinal physiologist who led research on gastrin and founded the first NIH digestive diseases center, CURE, in 1974.
Morton N. Swartz
Morton N. Swartz (1923–2013) was an American infectious-diseases physician and Harvard professor who founded and led Massachusetts General Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases for 34 years, from 1956.
Morton's neuroma
Morton's neuroma, or interdigital neuroma, is a thickening of tissue around an irritated common plantar digital nerve between the toes, usually the third web space. Treated first with footwear changes, then steroid injections or neurectomy; not a true nerve tumor.
Morton's toe
Morton's toe, also called Morton's foot or Greek foot, is a congenital foot shape with a short first metatarsal making the second toe look longer; distinct from Morton's neuroma, prevalence about 10-66% by population.
Mortoniceras
Mortoniceras, also written Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras), is an extinct Albian to early Cenomanian ammonoid genus (type species Ammonites vespertinus) whose tuberculate, keeled shells define upper Albian ammonite biozones worldwide.
Morula (gastropod)
Morula Schumacher, 1817 is an accepted genus of predatory muricid sea snails in Ergalataxinae, type species Morula uva; molecular work shows the traditional genus was polyphyletic and restricted it.
Morula cell
Morula cell: a blastomere of the morula, the compacted solid ball of about 12–32 cells in the early mammalian embryo (Latin morus, mulberry). Outer cells become trophectoderm, inner cells the inner cell mass; human morula spans Day 3–4.
Morus (plant)
Morus (mulberry) is a genus of Moraceae trees, native from Iran to the Kuril Islands and the Americas, whose leaves feed silkworms; 10–17 accepted species, 2n=28, fruits eaten fresh or as jam and wine.
Morus alba
Morus alba, white mulberry (桑), a Moraceae tree native to central China, cultivated for millennia as the obligate feed of Bombyx mori silkworms; medicinal phytochemistry, forage value, and invasive hybridization with Morus rubra.
Morus nigra
Morus nigra, black mulberry (shah-toot), a deciduous Moraceae fruit tree native to western and southwestern Iran, cultivated since antiquity; decosaploid with 308 chromosomes and fruit 1–2.5 cm.