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Neglecta
Neglecta ("Neglecta timonensis") is an invalidly published 2016 genus name for a gram-positive anaerobic gut bacterium, now correctly Neglectibacter timonensis Zgheib et al. 2024, isolated from human stool.
Neglected tropical diseases
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs): WHO group of 21 poverty-associated tropical conditions such as dracunculiasis, leprosy, trachoma, and rabies; about 1 billion affected, 1.4 billion needing interventions, 58 countries with at least one elimination by end 2025.
Negligible senescence
Negligible senescence, coined by Caleb Finch in 1990, describes organisms such as turtles, rockfish, hydra, and the naked mole-rat whose mortality and reproduction show no age-related decline after maturity.
Nei Wai Shang Bian Huo Lun
内外伤辨惑论 (Nei wai shang bian huo lun), a 1231–1247 three-juan treatise by Jin physician Li Gao (Li Dongyuan), distinguishing internal injury of the spleen and stomach from external contraction and introducing Buzhong Yiqi Tang.
Neighbor joining
Neighbor joining is a distance-based algorithm that constructs an unrooted phylogenetic tree from a matrix of pairwise evolutionary distances, introduced by Saitou and Nei in 1987.
Neighborhood Characteristics
Neighborhood characteristics are the demographic, social, built-environment, and economic features of residential areas, also called neighborhood effects or neighborhood disadvantage, studied for their influence on residents' health and well-being.
Neil A. Holtzman
Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.
Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018, known for showing that Xist RNA controls X chromosome inactivation.
Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)
Neil Burgess, born 1966, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London, known for work on the hippocampus, spatial navigation, and episodic memory.
Neil H Riordan
Neil H Riordan is an American stem cell researcher and entrepreneur who founded the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, which treats diseases with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells.
Neil H. Raskin
Neil H. Raskin (1935–2026) was an American neurologist and headache medicine researcher, professor emeritus at UCSF, known for describing hypnic and thunderclap headache, the Raskin Protocol for migraine, and the textbook Headache.
Neil H. Shubin
Neil H. Shubin, also known as Neil Shubin, is an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago, best known for discovering the fossil fish Tiktaalik roseae.
Neil Hamilton Fairley
Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891–1966) was an Australian physician and army officer who led Allied malaria control in the Second World War, proving atebrin could suppress the disease.
Neil Harbisson
Neil Harbisson is a British-born artist and cyborg activist born with achromatopsia. His antenna implant converts light frequencies into sound, enabling him to hear colors beyond the human spectrum.
Neil Hunter
Neil Hunter is a British molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis and an HHMI Investigator, known for research on meiotic recombination and DNA repair.
Neil J. Elgee
Neil J. Elgee (1926–2020) was an American physician who practiced internal medicine and endocrinology, taught at the University of Washington, and founded the Ernest Becker Foundation in 1993.
Neil Kaplowitz
Neil Kaplowitz is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, known for research on glutathione transport, alcoholic liver injury, and drug-induced liver damage.
Neil M Vora
Neil M Vora is a physician-epidemiologist who spent nearly ten years at the CDC, led New York City's COVID-19 contact tracing program, and now works on preventing pandemics.
Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease and professor at Imperial College London, known for models of BSE, foot-and-mouth, and COVID-19 that shaped Britain's 2020 lockdown.
Neil M. Resnick
Neil M. Resnick, also known as Neil Resnick, is an American geriatrician who was Chief of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC until 2023.
Neil Osheroff
Neil Osheroff is an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine known for research on type II topoisomerases and the anticancer and antibacterial drugs targeting them.
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce is a New Zealand epidemiologist and biostatistician, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known for asthma research and co-founding ISAAC.
Neil Q. McDonald
Neil Q. McDonald, also known as Neil McDonald, is a structural biologist and Professor at Birkbeck, joint with the Francis Crick Institute, known for the 1991 nerve growth factor structure.
Neil R Poulter
Neil R Poulter is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London since 1997, and Chief Investigator of May Measurement Month.
Neil R. Blacklow
Neil R. Blacklow is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and founding chief of its Division of Infectious Diseases.
Neil R. Cashman
Neil R. Cashman is a Canadian neurologist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for showing that misfolded SOD1 spreads in a prion-like manner in ALS.
Neil R. Powe
Neil R. Powe is an American physician-scientist who has served as chief of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and professor at UCSF since 2009.
Neil Risch
Neil Risch is an American statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist who directs human genetics at UCSF, co-leads a large Kaiser Permanente biobank, and won the 2023 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award.
Neil Scolding
Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.
Neil the Seal
Neil the Seal is a male southern elephant seal born in Tasmania in 2020, the only male of his kind visiting Tasmania, famous on TikTok (1.4 million followers) for damaging bollards, cars, and fences during twice-yearly haul outs near Hobart.