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Dialium
Dialium L. is a pantropical genus of Fabaceae trees (subfamily Dialioideae), type species D. indum, with about 37 accepted species, indehiscent edible-pulped fruits (velvet tamarind, keranji), and centers of diversity in West-Central Africa and western Malesia.
Diallel analysis
Diallel analysis is a quantitative genetics method in which inbred lines are crossed in all pairwise combinations, partitioning progeny performance into general and specific combining ability effects.
Dialysis
Dialysis is a medical procedure that removes waste products and excess water from the blood when the kidneys fail, mainly by hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
Diamond v. Chakrabarty
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), the 5-4 Supreme Court case holding that Ananda Chakrabarty's genetically engineered oil-eating Pseudomonas bacterium is patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as a manufacture or composition of matter, founding modern biotechnology patent law.
Diamond–Blackfan anemia
Diamond–Blackfan anemia (DBA, DBA syndrome) is a rare inherited ribosomopathy causing infantile macrocytic anemia, malformations, and cancer predisposition, mostly from ribosomal protein gene mutations like RPS19; treated with steroids, transfusions, and HSCT.
Diamondback terrapin
Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin), the only North American turtle living in brackish estuarine waters, ranges along Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Massachusetts to Texas; IUCN vulnerable, under ESA review since 2026, threatened chiefly by crab trap drowning.
Diamthazole
Diamthazole (dimazole, Asterol), CAS 95-27-2, is a benzothiazole topical antifungal introduced in 1951 for tinea, withdrawn in France in 1972 and by the US FDA in 1977 over neurotoxic reactions.
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American primatologist, founded Rwanda's Karisoke Research Center in 1967, studied mountain gorillas for 18 years, wrote Gorillas in the Mist, founded the Digit Fund, and was murdered at Karisoke in 1985, case unsolved.
Diana B. Petitti
Diana B. Petitti, also known as Diana Petitti, is an American epidemiologist and preventive-medicine physician and clinical professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix.
Diana C. Hargreaves
Diana C. Hargreaves is an American molecular biologist and professor at the Salk Institute who studies how the BAF chromatin remodeling complex shapes immune function and cancer therapy response.
Diana D. Cardenas
Diana D. Cardenas is an American physiatrist and spinal cord injury researcher who chaired rehabilitation medicine at the University of Miami and joined the Institute of Medicine in 2004.
Diana Elbourne
Diana Elbourne (D. Elbourne) is a trials methodologist and perinatal health researcher, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the UK neonatal ECMO and CESAR trials.
Diana Greene Foster
Diana Greene Foster is an American demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who led the Turnaway Study, a ten-year study of about 1,000 women who sought abortions.
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall was an American soil ecologist at Colorado State University who showed that soil animals, from Antarctic nematodes onward, are a working part of the climate system.
Diana L. Miglioretti
Diana L. Miglioretti is an American biostatistician and chief of the Division of Biostatistics at UC Davis who studies breast cancer screening and radiation risks from medical imaging.
Diana M. Bautista
Diana M. Bautista is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies the molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and itch, and became an HHMI investigator in 2022.
Diana M. Gibb
Diana M. Gibb is a British pediatrician and Professor of Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, known for landmark pediatric HIV trials in Africa.
Diana W. Bianchi
Diana W. Bianchi is an American medical geneticist and neonatologist, director of the NIH's child health institute since 2016 and a pioneer of prenatal DNA screening.
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin (1940–2024) was an American virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins known for research on measles virus and alphavirus encephalitis, and NAS vice president.
Diane E. Meier
Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Diane Havlir
Diane V. Havlir is an American physician-scientist at UCSF, chief of HIV and infectious diseases at San Francisco General, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Diane K O'Dowd
Diane K. O'Dowd is an American neurobiologist and HHMI Professor at UC Irvine, known for research on ion channels and SCN1A epilepsy mutations and for undergraduate science-education reform.
Diane K. Hawley
Diane K. Hawley is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Oregon since 1986, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcription.
Diane M. Robins
Diane M. Robins is an American human geneticist, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, known for her work on androgen receptor regulation in prostate cancer.
Diane M. Simeone
Diane M. Simeone is an American pancreatic surgeon and cancer researcher who directs Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and belongs to the National Academy of Medicine.
Diane Mathis
Diane Mathis is an immunologist who holds the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professorship at Harvard Medical School, known for work on immunological tolerance, the Aire transcription factor, and type 1 diabetes.
Diane O'Brien
Diane M. O'Brien is an American nutrition scientist and ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who pioneered stable isotope ratios as objective dietary biomarkers.
Diane R. Gold
Diane R. Gold is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist, professor at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for about forty years of research on air pollution, smoking, and childhood asthma.
Diane Rowland
Diane Rowland is an American health policy scholar who led the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured for 25 years and chaired MACPAC from 2009 to 2015.
Diane Santa Maria
Diane Santa Maria is an American nurse-scientist and public health researcher who serves as dean of Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, studying HIV and substance use prevention among homeless youth.