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Scorpion sting
Scorpion sting: envenomation from scorpion stinger injection (scorpionism), a neglected tropical disease causing over 1.2 million stings and 3,000 deaths yearly; sodium-channel neurotoxins drive symptoms, with antivenom and prazosin as treatments.
Scorpion toxin
Scorpion toxin: venom peptides targeting Na, K, Ca, Cl, and TRP ion channels. Long-chain 60-70 aa alpha/beta toxins cause envenomation; short-chain 30-40 aa peptides block K+ channels; chlorotoxin used in tumor imaging.
Scorpions of Australia
The scorpions of Australia number 49 described species, likely over 500 in total, dominated by the endemic burrowing genus Urodacus, with stings that are painful but not medically significant.
Scorpions of Europe
The scorpions of Europe number about 76 valid species as of 2018, nearly all harmless, with Greece the most diverse national fauna and a famous introduced colony in Kent, England.
Scorpions of Mexico
The scorpions of Mexico make it the most scorpion-diverse country in the world, with 281 to 311 species in eight families, dominated by Vaejovidae and including the lethal genus Centruroides.
Scot A. Wolfe
Scot A. Wolfe is a molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for work on protein–DNA recognition and CRISPR gene editing.
SCOT-HEART trial
SCOT-HEART (Scottish Computed Tomography of the Heart) trial: Scottish RCT of 4,146 stable chest pain patients showing coronary CT angiography plus standard care reduced CHD death or nonfatal MI at 5 and 10 years.
Scotoma
Scotoma: an area of absolute or partial vision loss within the visual field. Types include central, paracentral, arcuate, and scintillating scotomas; causes include glaucoma, macular disease, optic neuropathy, and migraine; mapped by perimetry and the Amsler grid.
Scotophilus
Scotophilus (yellow house bats, yellow bats), a genus of vesper bats (Vespertilionidae) named by Leach in 1821, with about 21 species across Africa, Madagascar, and Asia; S. kuhlii is basal and S. heathii nests within African lineages.
Scotoplanes
Scotoplanes, or sea pigs, are a genus of deep-sea elasipodid sea cucumbers (Elpidiidae) that walk on tube feet across abyssal mud worldwide at 550–6,700 m, feeding selectively on settled organic detritus.
Scott A. Strobel
Scott A. Strobel is an American biochemist at Yale University, where he has served as provost since 2020 and is known for structural studies of RNA catalysis.
Scott A. Tomlins
Scott A. Tomlins is an American molecular pathologist known for discovering TMPRSS2:ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer and developing the MiPS urine test for its detection.
Scott Antonia
Scott Joseph Antonia is an American medical oncologist who directs the Duke Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and led the PACIFIC trial establishing durvalumab for stage III lung cancer.
Scott Atlas
Scott W. Atlas, Stanford neuroradiologist and Hoover Institution fellow, was Trump's Special COVID-19 Advisor (August–December 2020), advocated focused protection over lockdowns, and was censured by Stanford's Faculty Senate.
Scott B. Halstead
Scott B. Halstead is an American physician-scientist and one of the world's foremost authorities on mosquito-borne viruses, best known for establishing antibody-dependent enhancement in dengue.
Scott Boyd
Scott D. Boyd is an American physician scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, a Rhodes Scholar whose laboratory uses DNA sequencing to study immune responses, vaccination, and food allergy.
Scott C. Blanchard
Scott C. Blanchard is a biophysicist and Endowed Chair at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, known for single-molecule imaging of ribosomes and the 2025 Kazuhiko Kinosita Award.
Scott C. Howard
Scott C. Howard, also known as Scott Howard, is an American pediatric oncologist known for his 2011 New England Journal of Medicine review on tumor lysis syndrome.
Scott D. Emr
Scott D. Emr is an American cell biologist who discovered the ESCRT pathway, the conserved machinery that sorts membrane proteins for degradation, and founded Cornell's Weill Institute.
Scott D. Halpern
Scott D. Halpern is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who runs large randomized trials of financial incentives and default options in medicine, from smoking cessation to end-of-life care.
Scott D. Holmberg
Scott D. Holmberg (born 1950) is an American physician and CDC epidemiologist who led influential HIV studies and heads the national Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS).
Scott D. Solomon
Scott D. Solomon is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for leading the PARAGON-HF, DELIVER, and FINEARTS-HF heart failure trials.
Scott E. Hensley
Scott E. Hensley is a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies influenza, known for immune imprinting and a 2022 mRNA vaccine against all 20 flu subtypes.
Scott E. Kern
Scott E. Kern is a professor of oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins whose research established the molecular genetics of pancreatic cancer, including the SMAD4 discovery.
Scott Emmons
Scott Wilson Emmons is an American geneticist and neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who led completion of the first whole-animal connectome, of the roundworm C. elegans.
Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb (born 1972) is an American physician and investor, 23rd FDA Commissioner (May 2017 to April 2019), later a Pfizer and Illumina board member, AEI senior fellow, and author of Uncontrolled Spread.
Scott H. Kaufmann
Scott H. Kaufmann is an American oncologist at Mayo Clinic whose Anticancer Drug Action Laboratory studies how targeted agents kill cancer cells and how resistance arises.
Scott H. Podolsky
Scott H. Podolsky is an American physician and historian of medicine, professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for the History of Medicine since 2006.
Scott H. Sicherer
Scott H. Sicherer is an American physician-scientist specializing in food allergy, known for widely cited prevalence surveys and reviews, who directs the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai.
Scott Horowitz
Scott Horowitz is an American biochemist and Associate Professor at the University of Denver who studies molecular chaperones and showed that RNA can act as a protein chaperone.