Life and health

Dalbergia

Dalbergia (rosewoods) is a pantropical legume genus of trees, shrubs, and lianas in Fabaceae, tribe Dalbergieae, with 275 accepted species; source of rosewood timber, CITES Appendix II since 2017.

Dalbergia granadillo (zangalicua, cocobolo mexicano, granadillo) is a Mexican rosewood tree of Fabaceae, CITES Appendix II, IUCN Critically Endangered, with over 80% decline over three generations from illegal logging for guitars and Hongmu furniture.

Dalbergia sissoo

Dalbergia sissoo (shisham, Indian rosewood) is a nitrogen-fixing Fabaceae timber tree native from the Arabian Peninsula to Myanmar, widely planted in South Asia, IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II via the genus, affected by die-back disease.

Oct 20, 2026

Dalcetrapib

Dalcetrapib (RO4607381, JTT-705) is a CETP modulator that raises HDL cholesterol about 30% with minimal LDL effect; its phase 3 dal-OUTCOMES trial failed for futility, and development continues only for ADCY9 AA-genotype patients.

Dalda

Dalda is a vanaspati (hydrogenated vegetable oil) brand introduced in India in 1937, named by adding 'L' from Lever to Dada & Co; now Dalda Foods in Pakistan (acquired from Unilever 2004) and a Bunge India trademark.

Dale A. Ramsden

Dale A. Ramsden is an American biochemist at the University of North Carolina who studies how cells repair chromosome breaks, including polymerase theta-mediated end joining.

Sep 20, 2026

Dale B. Wigley

Dale B. Wigley is a structural biologist and Royal Society Fellow who holds the Chair in Protein Crystallography at Imperial College London, known for DNA helicase structures.

Dale Bauman

Dale E. Bauman is an American dairy cattle physiologist and Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Dale E. Bredesen

Dale E. Bredesen, also known as Dale Bredesen, is an American physician-scientist known for research on programmed cell death and the ReCODE protocol, a contested program for cognitive decline.

Dale I. Godfrey

Dale I. Godfrey (Dale Godfrey) is an Australian immunologist at the University of Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute, known for research on NKT cells and unconventional T cells.

Dale Kaiser

Dale Kaiser was an American molecular geneticist at Stanford University who discovered cell-to-cell signaling in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus and shared the 1980 Lasker Award.

Dale N. Gerding

Dale N. Gerding is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who spent his career in the VA health system studying Clostridioides difficile, including a non-toxigenic biotherapeutic preventing recurrent infection.

Dale Purves

Dale Purves is an American neuroscientist, the George B. Geller Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for research on neural development and, since the mid-1990s, visual and auditory perception.

Dale Sanders

Dale Sanders is a British plant biologist whose work on ion transport and plant nutrition underpins zinc biofortification of cereals; he led the John Innes Centre from 2010.

Sep 20, 2026

Dale T. Umetsu

Dale T. Umetsu is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for identifying the TIM gene family and NKT cells in asthma, and for professorships at Harvard and Stanford.

Oct 20, 2026

Dalea

Dalea L., the prairie clovers, is a New World legume genus (Fabaceae, Amorpheae) of about 175–193 xerophytic herb and shrub species, most diverse in Mexico, used for forage, restoration, medicine, and nitrogen fixation.

Dalfampridine

Dalfampridine (fampridine, 4-aminopyridine; brands Ampyra, Fampyra) is an extended-release potassium channel blocker improving walking in MS (EDSS 4-7); 10 mg twice daily, about one third of patients respond with ~25% speed gain; seizure and renal-impairment contraindications.

Dalfopristin

Dalfopristin, a semi-synthetic streptogramin A antibiotic derived from pristinamycin IIA, forms the 70:30 intravenous combination Synercid with quinupristin; FDA-approved in 1999 for vancomycin-resistant E. faecium and later discontinued in the US.

Dall sheep

Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), also called Dall's sheep, a thinhorn subspecies and the world's only wild white sheep, native to Alaska and Yukon/NWT mountains; up to 300 lb, full-curl rams at 7-8 years, avalanches a leading adult mortality cause.

Dall's Blake reports

The Dall's Blake reports are William Healey Dall's monographs describing the mollusks and brachiopods dredged by the Coast Survey steamer Blake in 1877 to 1880, published in final form in 1886 and 1889.

Dalmanella

Dalmanella is an extinct dalmanellid orthide brachiopod genus, type species D. testudinaria from the Hirnantian of Sweden, a cool-water Hirnantia Fauna element, Ordovician to Early Silurian.

Dalmanites

Dalmanites Barrande 1852 is an extinct dalmanitid trilobite genus (order Phacopida) with 11 thoracic segments, large eyes, and a spined pygidium, ranging from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian; best-known species D. limulurus from the Rochester Shale, New York.

Dalmanitina

Dalmanitina is an extinct dalmanitid trilobite genus named by Reed in 1905, best known from Ordovician marine rocks of Europe and for the bifocal calcite lenses of Dalmanitina socialis.

Dalmatian (dog)

Dalmatian (Dalmatinski pas), Croatian-origin spotted dog breed; historic carriage and firehouse dog. White coat with black or liver spots, 56-62 cm males; prone to hereditary deafness and urate stones from SLC2A9 mutation.

Dalnacogene ponparvovec injection

Dalnacogene ponparvovec injection (BBM-H901, brand name Xinjuning) is a one-time gene therapy for moderate-to-severe hemophilia B in adults, first approved in China on April 10, 2025.

Dalpiciclib

Dalpiciclib (SHR6390) is an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor from Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, approved in China in 2021, used with endocrine therapy for HR-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer; key trials include DAWNA-1, DAWNA-2, and the adjuvant DAWNA-A, with neutropenia as its characteristic toxicity.

Dalteparin sodium

Dalteparin sodium (Fragmin) is a low-molecular-weight heparin anticoagulant approved in the US in 1994, dosed by weight subcutaneously; it treats cancer-associated VTE, provides surgical and medical thromboprophylaxis, and covers unstable angina and dialysis circuits.

Dalzanemdor

Dalzanemdor (SAGE-718) is an investigational oral NMDA receptor positive allosteric modulator by Sage Therapeutics for cognitive impairment in Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease; all phase 2 trials missed endpoints and development was discontinued in 2024.

Dam-replacing

Dam-replacing (IPR010324, Pfam PF06044) is an InterPro-classified bacterial protein family with catalytic PD-(D/E)XK and HTH domains, annotated to DNA restriction-modification and clearance of foreign intracellular DNA, distinct from the dam methylase itself.