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Rainer Hambrecht

Rainer Hambrecht (born 1961) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, and led trials showing exercise training restores endothelial function.

Rainer Hedrich

Rainer Hedrich is a German plant biophysicist who introduced the patch-clamp technique into plant science and led the University of Würzburg's molecular plant physiology chair.

Rainer Renkawitz

Rainer Renkawitz is a molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation by nuclear receptors and chromatin insulators, holding the Genetics chair at Giessen from 1991 to 2016.

Rainer Storb

Rainer Storb is a hematologist who joined E. Donnall Thomas's Seattle transplant program in 1965 and helped establish allogeneic stem cell transplantation as a cure for leukemia and aplastic anemia.

Rainer Weber

Rainer Weber (born 1955) is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at University Hospital Zurich from 1997 to 2020.

Rainfall simulation

Rainfall simulation is an experimental method that applies artificial rain of controlled intensity and drop size to plots, measuring runoff, infiltration, and erosion since the 1930s.

Rainforest

Rainforest: dense evergreen forest with high rainfall, tropical and temperate types, holding over half of Earth's species on 2–6% of land; four layers, Amazon largest, threatened by deforestation, fire, and climate change.

Rainier cherry

Rainier cherry: blushed yellow sweet cherry cultivar, Bing x Van cross made 1952 by Harold Fogle at WSU Prosser, released 1960, named for Mount Rainier; highest-value Pacific Northwest cherry, ripens 3-6 days after Bing.

RAISE ETP trial

RAISE-ETP, the NIMH Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode Early Treatment Program, was a 34-site cluster-randomized trial (404 participants) showing NAVIGATE coordinated specialty care improved quality of life, symptoms, and cost-effectiveness in first-episode psychosis versus usual community care.

Raised antibody titre

Raised antibody titre (抗体滴度增高), ICD-11 MA14.1C, is a lab finding of antibody concentration above the reference range, caused by infection, vaccination, autoimmune disease, or malignancy.

Raisin

A raisin is a dried grape, made by drying Vitis vinifera in the sun or by dehydration; Thompson Seedless makes up 90 percent of the U.S. supply.

Raj K. Goyal

Raj K. Goyal is a physician-scientist, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a VA Boston staff physician, known for research on esophageal motility, Barrett's esophagus, and diabetic gastroparesis.

Raj Makkar

Raj Makkar, born Rajendra R. Makkar, is an American interventional cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles who led the PARTNER trials of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement.

Raja clavata

Raja clavata, the thornback ray or roker, an eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean skate of family Rajidae; oviparous, laying 140-160 egg cases yearly; IUCN Near Threatened globally, Endangered in the Mediterranean.

Rajahpravartini Vati

Rajahpravartini Vati (Rajah Pravartini Vati) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill of aloe extract, purified green vitriol, asafoetida, and borax, used for dysmenorrhoea, obstructed menstruation, and amenorrhea.

Rajamrganka Rasa

Rajamrganka Rasa (Raja Mriganka Rasa), a classical Ayurvedic rasa shastra herbo-mineral formula of mercury, gold, silver, and arsenic sulfides, used for phthisis, tuberculosis, and chronic bronchitis, with regulated toxic-metal safety concerns.

Rajanyadi Cirna

Rajanyadi Cirma (Rajanyādi cūrṇa, रजन्यादि चूर्णं), an eight-herb Ayurvedic powder from the Astangahrdaya and Ayurvedic Formulary of India entry 7:29, dosed 1/2-2 g with ghee and honey for pediatric and digestive disorders; curcumin 0.335% w/w.

Rajat Rohatgi

Rajat Rohatgi is an American physician-scientist who is Professor of Biochemistry and of Medicine (Oncology) at Stanford, best known for work on Hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium.

Rajat Singh

Rajat Singh is a physician-scientist who discovered lipophagy, the autophagic degradation of lipid droplets, reported in Nature in 2009, and since 2023 has directed the UCLA Comprehensive Liver Research Center.

Rajata bhasma

Rajata bhasma (रजत भस्म), Ayurvedic calcined silver preparation of Rasashastra; nanoparticle-sized silver/silver sulfide powder dosed 30–120 mg, studied for antimicrobial activity and toxicity in zebrafish and rodents.

Rajendra H. Mehta

Rajendra H. Mehta is an interventional cardiologist, a Duke Clinical Research Institute member since 2004, and adjunct professor at Duke University known for leading the 2017 LEVO-CTS levosimendan trial.

Rajendra K. Agrawal

Rajendra K. Agrawal (R.K. Agrawal) is a structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to determine ribosome structures, and is Chief of a research division at the Wadsworth Center in New York.

Rajendra S. Apte

Rajendra S. Apte, also known as Rajendra Apte, is an Indian-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on age-related macular degeneration.

Rajesh T. Gandhi

Rajesh T. Gandhi, also published as Rajesh Gandhi, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for HIV reservoir and cure research.

Rajesh Thakker

Rajesh V. Thakker is a British endocrinologist known for defining the molecular basis of calcium homeostasis disorders and MEN1; he was May Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1999 to 2023.

Rajidae

Rajidae, hardnose skates, is a family of Rajiformes skates (Blainville 1816) with 18 genera and about 165 species, found benthically in all oceans from Arctic to Antarctic waters, oviparous with mermaid's-purse egg cases.

Rajiformes

Rajiformes is the order of skates within Batoidea, also historically applied to batoid rays broadly; about 290 living species in 38 genera, four molecular families, oviparous benthic fishes with divided pelvic fins and tail electric organs.

Rajindar S. Sohal

Rajindar S. Sohal is a biologist studying oxidative stress and aging who holds a professorship at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2000.

Rajiv Agarwal

Rajiv Agarwal is a nephrologist and clinical trialist, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, who studies hypertension in chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis.

Rajiv Jalan

Rajiv Jalan is a British hepatologist and Professor of Hepatology at University College London, known for describing acute-on-chronic liver failure and developing liver disease therapies.