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Chemoton
Chemoton is the name of a theoretical minimal self-reproducing chemical system proposed by Tibor Gánti, and of software developed at ETH Zürich for exploring chemical reaction networks.
Chemotroph
Chemotroph: organism obtaining energy by oxidizing organic or inorganic chemical compounds rather than light; split into organotrophs and lithotrophs, and into chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs by carbon source.
Chen Chien-jen (陈建仁)
Chen Chien-jen (陈建仁) is a Taiwanese epidemiologist known for research on viral hepatitis and arsenic in drinking water, who served as Vice President of Taiwan from 2016 to 2020.
Chen Dong (immunologist)
Chen Dong (董晨) is a Chinese immunologist, Vice President and Dean of Medicine at Westlake University, known for co-discovering the Th17 and Tfh cell subsets.
Chen-Lu Tsou
Chen-Lu Tsou (邹承鲁) was a Chinese biochemist, a founder of modern biochemistry in China, known for the Tsou plot, the 1965 insulin synthesis, and enzyme active-site flexibility.
Chen‐Ming Fan
Chen-Ming Fan is a molecular and developmental biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, known for work on somite patterning and muscle stem cells.
Chen‐Pei D. Tu
Chen-Pei D. Tu, also published as Chen-Pei David Tu, is a molecular biochemist and professor emeritus at Penn State known for studies of transposon insertion specificity and ligninase.
Cheng Chi Lee
Cheng Chi Lee is a neuroscientist who worked on the mammalian circadian clock at Baylor College of Medicine, isolating clock genes and showing Period2 acts as a tumor suppressor.
Cheng Zhu
Cheng Zhu (朱橙) is a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for the direct observation of catch bonds in cell-adhesion molecules and for showing that force triggers T-cell signaling.
Cheng‐Feng Qin
Cheng-Feng Qin (秦成峰) is a Chinese virologist at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing, known for Zika virus research and the ARCoV mRNA vaccine.
Cheng‐Ming Chuong
Cheng-Ming Chuong (钟正明) is a developmental biologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who uses the feather as a model organ to study how skin appendages form and regenerate.
Chenghua Gu
Chenghua Gu is a Chinese-born American neurobiologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying Mfsd2a as critical to the blood–brain barrier and for studying neurovascular coupling.
Chenodeoxycholic acid
Chenodeoxycholic acid, also known as chenodiol, is one of two primary bile acids made by the human liver; as a drug it dissolves gallstones and treats cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album, called fat hen or common lamb's-quarters, is an annual Eurasian herb eaten as a leaf vegetable and ranked among North America's worst crop weeds.
Chentao Lin
Chentao Lin (林辰涛) is a plant biologist known for discovering the plant cryptochrome blue-light receptors CRY1 and CRY2, who taught at UCLA from 1996 to 2022 before joining Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.
Chenxiang Lin
Chenxiang (Charlie) Lin, 林晨翔, is a scientist in DNA nanotechnology, a Yale professor and Nanobiology Institute faculty member since 2012 known for DNA-templated liposome assembly and nanodevices that pull on proteins.
Cherax quadricarinatus
Cherax quadricarinatus, the Australian redclaw crayfish (von Martens 1868), is a large tropical freshwater crayfish native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, farmed worldwide for aquaculture and invasive in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Cherenkov luminescence imaging
Cherenkov luminescence imaging is an optical method that photographs the faint light emitted when radioactive tracers decay in tissue, a low-cost complement to PET and SPECT.
Cherimoya
Cherimoya (Annona cherimola), also called custard apple, is an Annonaceae fruit tree from tropical America with sweet creamy syncarp fruit; grown mainly in Spain, Peru, and Chile, hand-pollinated, with toxic annonacin-bearing seeds.
Cherry
Cherry, the stone fruit of Prunus avium (sweet) and Prunus cerasus (sour), plus duke hybrids; hybrid-origin sour cherry, 800-1,200 chill hours, bee pollination, Türkiye and Pacific States lead production.
Cherry angioma
Cherry angioma, also called Campbell de Morgan spot or senile angioma, is a benign red skin growth of dilated capillaries, 1 to 5 mm, common after age 30 and in 75% of adults over 75, treated by laser or electrosurgery if needed.
Cherry blossom
Cherry blossom (sakura, 桜), the spring flower of ornamental Prunus trees such as Prunus serrulata and Yoshino cherry; celebrated in Japanese hanami, gifted to Washington D.C. in 1912, and a 1,200-year climate record showing earlier blooming.
Cherry eye
Cherry eye, or prolapsed nictitating membrane gland (PNMG), is a prolapse of the third eyelid tear gland in dogs, common in young, predisposed breeds; treated by surgical gland replacement, not removal.
Cherry tomato
Cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme), small-fruited tomato indigenous to Peru–Ecuador and ancestor of cultivated tomato; Aztec tomatl; commercialized by Marks & Spencer in the 1970s, popular from the 1980s.
Cherubism
Cherubism (SH3BP2-related cherubism) is a rare autosomal dominant childhood jaw disease causing bilateral painless mandibular and maxillary fibro-osseous swelling, onset at ages 2-7, spontaneous regression after puberty, SH3BP2 mutations in about 80% of cases.
Chervil
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium), also called French parsley, is an annual Apiaceae herb native from eastern Central Europe to Iran, grown for delicate parsley-anise leaves used fresh in French fines herbes; drying or heat destroys its flavor.
Cheryl A. Kerfeld
Cheryl A. Kerfeld is a structural biologist known for determining the structure of bacterial microcompartment shells, who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and also holds appointments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Cheryl A. Nickerson
Cheryl A. Nickerson is an American microbiologist at Arizona State University whose discovery that low fluid shear regulates Salmonella virulence helped found mechanobiology of infectious disease.
Cheryl Broussard
Cheryl S. Broussard is a CDC researcher specializing in birth defects surveillance and research, honored with a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Cheryl L. Holder
Cheryl L. Holder is an American internist and climate-health educator who founded Florida Clinicians for Climate Action in 2018 and co-chairs Miami-Dade County's heat-health task force while teaching at Florida International University.