Life and health

Cradle cap

Cradle cap, also called infantile seborrheic dermatitis, is a harmless, non-contagious scaly scalp rash common in babies under three months, affecting about 70% of three-month-olds, clearing by 6-12 months, treated with gentle shampooing and oil softening.

Craig A. Townsend

Craig A. Townsend is the Alsoph H. Corwin Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on the biosynthesis of natural products and β-lactam antibiotics.

Craig B. Thompson

Craig B. Thompson is an American physician-scientist who studies how cancer cells rewire their metabolism and led Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as president and CEO from 2010 to 2022.

Craig C. Earle

Craig C. Earle is a Canadian medical oncologist and health services researcher who studies quality of care for advanced cancer patients, and CEO of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer since 2021.

Craig C. Malbon

Craig C. Malbon is an American molecular pharmacologist who directed a research laboratory at Stony Brook University from 1978 to 2022, known for antisense studies of G-protein signaling.

Craig C. Mello

Craig C. Mello, born 1960, is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA interference in 1998 and won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Craig D. Blackstone

Craig D. Blackstone is an American neurologist and physician-scientist who studies inherited neurological disorders and is Chief of the Movement Disorders Division at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Craig D. Newgard

Craig D. Newgard is an American emergency physician and researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, who moved from OHSU to UCSF in 2025.

Craig E. Jahr

Craig E. Jahr is an American neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University, known for research on glutamate receptors and how glutamate is cleared at synapses.

Craig Gérard

Craig Gérard, also published as Craig Gerard, is a physician and immunology researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for cloning the C5a receptor.

Craig H. Moskowitz

Craig H. Moskowitz is an American medical oncologist treating Hodgkin lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a longtime Memorial Sloan Kettering lymphoma leader now at the University of Miami.

Craig L. Leonardi

Craig L. Leonardi is an American dermatologist in St. Louis, Missouri, whose phase 3 trials of psoriasis biologics, including the 2016 ixekizumab UNCOVER trials, reshaped treatment.

Craig L. Peterson

Craig L. Peterson is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester who studies ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes, including SWI/SNF and INO80.

Craig M. Crews

Craig M. Crews is an American chemist and biotechnology entrepreneur, a Yale professor who pioneered targeted protein degradation, co-inventing PROTACs and founding Arvinas, whose drug vepdegestrant won FDA approval in 2026.

Craig Montell

Craig Montell is an American neuroscientist and molecular biologist who discovered the founding TRP ion channel and now studies how mosquitoes find and bite people.

Craig Moritz

Craig Moritz is an Australian-based population and evolutionary geneticist, a professor at the Australian National University since 2012, known for establishing phylogeography and conservation genomics as conservation tools.

Craig P. Hunter

Craig P. Hunter is an American developmental geneticist and Harvard professor known for identifying the SID proteins that enable systemic RNA interference in C. elegans.

Craig Packer

Craig Packer is an American behavioral ecologist at the University of Minnesota, best known for leading the Serengeti Lion Project for over three decades and for his 1982 Nature paper on cooperation among male lions.

Craig R. Roy

Craig R. Roy is a microbial pathogenesis researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium causing Legionnaires' disease, manipulates host cells to replicate.

Craig S. Pikaard

Craig S. Pikaard is an American plant biologist at Indiana University Bloomington known for discovering RNA polymerases IV and V, which drive RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants.

Craig T. Basson

Craig T. Basson is an American physician-scientist in molecular cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for identifying the genetic basis of Holt-Oram syndrome and Carney complex, and later for cardiovascular drug development at Novartis and Variant Bio.

Craig T. Jordan

Craig T. Jordan is a hematology researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz known for work on leukemia stem cells, the cells that drive acute myeloid leukemia.

Craig Venter

Craig Venter was an American geneticist and biotechnologist whose laboratory produced the first free-living organism's genome sequence, a draft human genome, and the first synthetic cell.

CRAL-TRIO lipid binding domain

The CRAL-TRIO lipid binding domain is a protein domain of roughly 167 residues that binds retinal, phosphatidylinositol, squalene, and vitamin E in lipid transfer proteins.

Crambe

Crambe L. is a Brassicaceae genus of about 30-37 herb species from Europe, Macaronesia, and Asia, whose type species is sea kale; C. abyssinica is an industrial oilseed crop rich in erucic acid.

Crambidae

Crambidae, grass moths or crambid snout moths, is a family of Pyraloidea with about 11,500 described species, defined by an open-type tympanal organ and praecinctorium, sister to Pyralidae, including major crop pests like the European corn borer.

Cramp

Cramp: sudden, involuntary, painful skeletal muscle contraction, self-resolving in seconds to minutes; common in calf, thigh, feet, hands; mechanisms debated (spinal vs peripheral); treated by stretching; quinine restricted.

Cramp or spasm

Cramp or spasm (ICD-11 MB47.3): a sudden, involuntary, painful muscle contraction lasting seconds to minutes, common in calves; usually benign, with debated spinal versus peripheral origin and limited drug treatment options.