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Camassia quamash
Camassia quamash (small camas, common camas, quamash) is a bulbous Asparagaceae geophyte native from western Canada to the western USA, with eight subspecies, an edible bulb harvested by Indigenous peoples for 4,000 years, and G5 conservation status.
Cambodian cuisine
Cambodian (Khmer) cuisine, the food tradition of Cambodia, based on rice, freshwater fish, prahok fermented fish paste, and kroeung spice paste; signature dishes include fish amok, kuy teav, and lok lak.
Cambrian and early Paleozoic annelid fossils
Cambrian and early Paleozoic annelid fossils are preserved segmented worms from about 535 million years ago, known almost exclusively from exceptionally preserved deposits like the Burgess Shale.
Cambrian explosion
Cambrian explosion: rapid diversification of animals ~540–520 Ma when nearly all animal phyla first appear in fossils; causes debated (oxygen, ecology, development); Burgess Shale and new Chinese biotas revise the story.
Cambrian stem-group ctenophores
Cambrian stem-group ctenophores are fossil comb jellies, 518 to 505 million years old, from the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biota, differing from living species in having more comb rows, no tentacles, and sometimes a hardened skeleton.
Cambridge Antibody Technology
Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT), a UK biotech founded in 1989 by Greg Winter, David Chiswell, and John McCafferty, pioneered phage display for fully human antibody drugs, discovered Humira, and was acquired by AstraZeneca in 2006 for £702 million.
CAMDS trial
CAMDS trial: a Dutch randomized simulation trial (NCT03812861, Koers et al., JAMA Surgery 2020) testing paper-based cognitive aids for deteriorating surgical ward patients; aids cut omitted critical management steps from 33% to 10%.
Camel
Camel (Camelus): desert-adapted Old World camelids, including the one-humped dromedary, two-humped Bactrian camel, and critically endangered wild Camelus ferus; domesticated around 3000 BC, raised for milk, meat, and transport.
Camelidae
Camelidae, the camel family (Tylopoda, Artiodactyla), includes seven species: dromedary, Bactrian camel, wild camel, llama, alpaca, vicuña, and guanaco. Originating in North America about 44 million years ago, camelids have three-chambered stomachs and oval red blood cells.
Camelina
Camelina, known as false flax or "gold of pleasure," is an annual oilseed crop of the mustard family, native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia and grown for omega-3-rich oil and protein-rich meal.
Camellia
Camellia (山茶属) is a genus of about 241 accepted Asian evergreen species in Theaceae, including the tea plant C. sinensis, tea-oil camellia C. oleifera, and ornamentals C. japonica, C. sasanqua, and C. reticulata; its infrageneric taxonomy remains contested.
Camellia japonica
Camellia japonica (tsubaki, 山茶), the Japanese or common camellia, is an East Asian Theaceae shrub native to China, Korea, and Japan; IUCN Least Concern (2015), early-spring ornamental, source of camellia oil, and ancestor of most garden camellias.
Camellia oleifera
Camellia oleifera (tea oil camellia, oil-tea camellia) is a Theaceae shrub native from Assam to southern China and Indochina whose seeds yield camellia seed oil, the oriental olive oil, over 75% oleic acid, produced almost entirely in China.
Camellia sinensis
Camellia sinensis (茶树), the tea plant, is an evergreen Theaceae shrub from East Asia whose leaves yield white, green, oolong, and black tea; two varieties, sinensis and assamica, differ in leaf size and hardiness.
Camelpox
Camelpox, also called camel pox, is an Orthopoxvirus cameli infection of dromedary and Bactrian camels causing fever and pox lesions; closest viral relative of variola (smallpox), endemic across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with rare non-transmissible human cases.
Camerata (crinoid)
Camerata is an extinct subclass of Paleozoic crinoids, defined by a rigidly plated calyx, that includes nearly 350 genera and lasted from the Early Ordovician to the late Permian.
Cameron E Webb
Cameron E Webb, fully Cameron Ewart Webb, is an Australian medical entomologist at NSW Health Pathology and the University of Sydney who studies mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.
Cameron Health
Cameron Health, Inc., a San Clemente, California medical device company founded in 2001, developed the first commercially available subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD System) and was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2012 for $150 million plus milestones.
Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie is a microbiologist and Ira L. Baldwin Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for discovering that fungus-growing ants cultivate antibiotic-producing bacteria.
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor and psychiatry chair at UC Irvine since 2023, known for fMRI studies of cognitive control and schizophrenia.
Camicinal
Camicinal (GSK962040) is GlaxoSmithKline's investigational small-molecule, selective motilin receptor agonist for gastroparesis. It accelerated gastric emptying in healthy volunteers and critically ill patients but failed its Phase 2 diabetic gastroparesis symptom endpoint and was not advanced to approval.
Camilla Arndal Andersen
Camilla Arndal Andersen is a Danish sensory neuroscientist known for EEG experiments showing the brain registers small taste differences and that fat may be a sixth basic taste.
Camilla Forsberg
Camilla Forsberg is an American stem cell biologist, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and director of its Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells; she received a PECASE award.
Camille Delezenne
Camille Delezenne (1868–1932) was a French physician and biologist who headed the physiology laboratory of the Institut Pasteur in Paris from 1900, studying blood coagulation and snake venom enzymology.
Camille Guérin
Camille Guérin (1872–1961) was a French veterinarian and biologist who, with Albert Calmette at the Pasteur Institute, developed the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis, first given to a child in 1921.
Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan, born 1961, is an American ecologist known for documenting that wild species shift their ranges in response to climate change, based at CNRS in France.
Camillo Bozzolo
Camillo Bozzolo (1845–1920) was an Italian physician who founded the Turin school of hematology, proved hookworm caused the anemia of Gotthard tunnel workers, and introduced thymol as its treatment.
Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) was an Italian physician at the University of Pavia who devised the black reaction silver stain, discovered the Golgi apparatus, and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize.
CAMK2A
CAMK2A (HGNC:1460, MIM 114078) encodes CaMKII alpha, the brain-abundant calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II subunit central to LTP and memory; de novo mutations cause intellectual disability, distinct from CAMK2B-related disorder.
CaMKII in synaptic plasticity
CaMKII in synaptic plasticity: calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, main postsynaptic density kinase. Autophosphorylation at Thr286 sustains activity after calcium entry through NMDA receptors, making it necessary and sufficient for LTP induction and a candidate molecular memory switch.