Life and health

David Zimmern

David Zimmern is a molecular virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, who showed in 1975 that tobacco mosaic virus RNA carries a methylated cap.

Davide F. Robbiani

Davide F. Robbiani is a Swiss immunologist who directs the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona and is a full professor at USI since 2020.

DavidJ.H. Brock

David J. H. Brock was a medical geneticist at the University of Edinburgh who built the biochemical and DNA-based methods used in antenatal diagnosis from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

Davis Ng

Davis T. W. Ng is a cell biologist at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and the National University of Singapore known for defining ER-associated degradation pathways in yeast.

Davor Solter

Davor Solter, born 1941 in Zagreb, is a developmental biologist known for discovering genomic imprinting and for embryonic antigens central to human stem cell work.

Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld Orlando killer whale trainer, killed February 24, 2010 by the orca Tilikum after a Dine with Shamu show; her death drove the OSHA case ending trainer waterwork and the documentary Blackfish.

Dawn Cornelison

Dawn Cornelison is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Missouri, recognized for her work on skeletal muscle stem cells and the extracellular matrix.

Dawn E. Kelley

Dawn E. Kelley was a molecular biologist at the Institute for Cancer Research and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for her 1974 discovery of methylated messenger RNA.

Dawn Jackson Blatner

Dawn Jackson "DJ" Blatner is a Chicago-based registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN, CSSD), creator of the flexitarian diet, author of The Flexitarian Diet and The Superfood Swap, winner of ABC's My Diet Is Better Than Yours, and former Chicago Cubs head dietitian.

Dawn L. Hershman

Dawn L. Hershman, also published as Dawn Hershman, is an American medical oncologist at Columbia University who studies breast cancer treatment and why patients stop taking cancer therapies.

Dawsonia (plant)

Dawsonia (巨髮苔屬), genus of giant mosses in Polytrichaceae named for Dawson Turner; contains Dawsonia superba, the world's tallest moss at up to 65 cm, native to Australasia and Melanesia.

Dawsonia superba

Dawsonia superba (Dawson's giant moss), family Polytrichaceae, is the world's tallest moss, up to 60 cm, native to New Zealand, Australia, and Malesia, with hydroid water conduction and a splash-cup peristome.

Oct 10, 2026

Daxiong Fu

Daxiong Fu, known professionally as Dax Fu, is a physiologist at Johns Hopkins who led the first high-resolution structure of the E. coli glycerol channel GlpF.

DAXX

DAXX (death domain associated protein, DAP6, EAP1, BING2), human chromosome 6 gene encoding a 740-aa multifunctional protein: transcriptional repressor binding sumoylated factors, H3.3 histone chaperone with ATRX, Fas-linked apoptosis regulator, and viral restriction factor.

Oct 20, 2026

Daxx, N-terminal Rassf1C-interacting domain

Daxx N-terminal Rassf1C-interacting domain (DHB/4HB, Pfam PF15161): a left-handed four-helix bundle at DAXX residues 55-144 that binds Rassf1C, p53, Mdm2, and ATRX, mediating DNA damage and taxane responses.

Daye Mubiezi

大叶木鳖子 (Momordica macrophylla Gage) is a large-leaved Cucurbitaceae climber from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, with medicinal seeds and tuberous roots; now a synonym of gac fruit, Momordica cochinchinensis.

Sep 29, 2026

Daylight photodynamic therapy

Daylight photodynamic therapy (DL-PDT, also dPDT) is a dermatological treatment in which a photosensitizing cream is activated by daylight to treat actinic keratoses, nearly painlessly.

Daylily

Daylily (Hemerocallis, Asphodelaceae): perennial genus of 16 species native from SE. Alps and Siberia to temperate East Asia; each flower lasts one day; basis of tens of thousands of garden cultivars.

Dayu Lin

Dayu Lin is a neuroscientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who identified an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus and studies the neural circuits of aggression, mating, and parenting.

Dayuan Yin

达原饮 (Dayuan Yin, Membrane-source Decoction) is a seven-herb Chinese medicine formula from Wu Youxing's 1642 Wenyi Lun for pestilence with pathogen hidden in the membrane source; used for fevers, SARS and COVID-19 research.

DAZ1

DAZ1 (Deleted in Azoospermia 1, HGNC:2682) is one of four DAZ1-4 RNA-binding protein genes on the Y chromosome AZFc region, derived from autosomal DAZL, expressed in spermatogonia, and deleted in some infertile men.

Dazdotuftide

Dazdotuftide (TRS01) is a steroid-free small-molecule immunomodulator eye drop from Tarsier Pharma, a tuftsin-phosphorylcholine conjugate in phase 3 development for non-infectious anterior uveitis, distinguished by superior intraocular pressure safety versus prednisolone acetate.

Dazodalibep

Dazodalibep (VIB4920, HZN4920, AMG 611) is an investigational CD40 ligand antagonist for Sjögren's disease, originally developed by MedImmune and now developed by Amgen.

Dazomet

Dazomet (Basamid, Mylone; CAS 533-74-4) is a granular pre-plant soil fumigant that hydrolyzes in moist soil to methyl isothiocyanate, controlling soil fungi, nematodes, weeds, and insects; EU biocidal approval runs to 2040.

Dazukibart

Dazukibart (PF-06823859), Pfizer's humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody neutralizing interferon-beta; investigational biologic in Phase 3 for dermatomyositis and Phase 2 for lupus, with strong Phase 2 skin efficacy data.

DB-1324

DB-1324 is a CDH17-targeting antibody-drug conjugate from Duality Biologics' DITAC platform, optioned to GSK in December 2024 for up to $975 million in milestones, now in a Phase 1/2 first-in-human gastrointestinal tumor trial.

DB-1418, EGFR/HER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate

DB-1418 (AVZO-1418) is DualityBio's EGFR/HER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate with a topoisomerase I inhibitor payload (DAR 6), licensed to Avenzo Therapeutics ex-Greater China, in the AVENTINE-1 Phase 1/2 trial with FDA Fast Track for EGFR-mutant TKI-pretreated NSCLC.

Oct 20, 2026

DBA/1

DBA/1 is an inbred laboratory mouse strain generated in 1929 and 1930 from crosses between DBA substrains, the oldest inbred mouse strain, established in 1909.