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E domain

E domain, the ~50-residue intrinsically disordered segment of staphylococcal protein SasG (G5-E repeats); folds cooperatively with neighboring G5 domains to build the Zn2+-dependent biofilm adhesion fibrils of S. aureus.

E-box

E-box (enhancer box, Ephrussi box): DNA motif 5'-CANNTG-3' bound mainly by bHLH transcription factors as dimers; regulates muscle, neural, circadian, and cancer genes; common variant CACGTG (G-box).

e-Health trial

e-Health trial (NCT02980237, e-Health Education Program at Workplace): Brazilian cluster randomized controlled trial testing nine Moodle video classes on musculoskeletal, dietary, and mental health for office workers; tutor support added no benefit over the conventional program.

e-Resiliencia trial

The e-Resiliencia trial tested a web-based training tool that equips healthcare middle managers in Spain's Valencian Community to strengthen their teams' resilience in critical situations.

E-SCREEN assay

The E-SCREEN assay is a cell proliferation bioassay that detects and quantifies the estrogenic activity of chemicals by measuring the proliferative response of estrogen-responsive MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.

E. Albert Reece

E. Albert Reece is a Jamaican-born American obstetrician-scientist in maternal-fetal medicine known for research on diabetes-induced birth defects and prenatal diagnosis, including embryofetoscopy.

E. Anthony Jones

E. Anthony Jones is a physician-scientist in hepatology known for the GABA hypothesis of hepatic encephalopathy and early trials of alpha interferon in chronic viral hepatitis.

E. Antonio Chiocca

E. Antonio Chiocca, known as Nino Chiocca, is an Italian-born American neurosurgeon who chairs neurosurgery at Mass General Brigham and develops oncolytic virus therapy and immunotherapy for glioblastoma.

E. B. Babcock

E. B. Babcock, born Ernest Brown Babcock, was an American plant geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study of the genus Crepis.

E. B. Ford

E. B. Ford, Edmund Brisco Ford, was a British ecological geneticist at Oxford who founded ecological genetics and won the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954.

E. Brad Thompson

E. Brad Thompson (Edward I. Bradbridge Thompson) is an American biochemist and physician, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Medical Branch, known for research on glucocorticoid receptors.

E. Clarence Rice

E. Clarence Rice was a Washington, D.C. pathologist and pediatric researcher who was associate professor of pediatric pathology at Georgetown University from 1946 to 1959.

E. Dale Abel

E. Dale Abel (Evan Dale Abel) is a Jamaican-born endocrinologist known for work on insulin signaling and mitochondrial metabolism in the diabetic heart, and chair of medicine at UCLA since 2022.

E. David Crawford

E. David Crawford is an American urologic oncologist known for the 1989 leuprolide and flutamide prostate cancer trial and for founding the Prostate Conditions Education Council.

E. De Robertis

E. De Robertis, also known as Eduardo De Robertis, was an Argentine physician and cell biologist who pioneered the electron-microscope study of the synapse and discovered the synaptic vesicle.

E. Digby Baltzell

E. Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), Penn sociologist and Columbia Ph.D., studied the American upper class, popularized the term WASP and "the Establishment," and wrote Philadelphia Gentlemen and The Protestant Establishment (1964).

E. Donnall Thomas

E. Donnall Thomas (1920–2012) was an American hematologist who developed bone marrow transplantation into a curative leukemia therapy at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, winning the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

E. Harvey Estes Jr.

E. Harvey Estes Jr. (1925–2025) was an American cardiologist at Duke University who chaired its Department of Community Health Sciences and built the physician assistant profession's curriculum, certification, and legal footing.

E. J. Conway

Edward Joseph Conway, known as E. J. Conway, was an Irish biochemist at University College Dublin who invented the Conway microdiffusion unit and overturned the belief that muscle is impermeable to chloride.

E. John Gallagher

E. John Gallagher is an emergency physician and Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He founded the department and oversaw over 500,000 annual emergency visits.

E. John Wherry

E. John Wherry is an American immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine known for defining the molecular nature of T cell exhaustion in chronic infection and cancer.

E. Magnus Ohman

E. Magnus Ohman, also known as Erik Magnus Ohman, is a Swedish-born cardiologist at Duke whose 1996 study established troponin T as a predictor of death in acute ischemia.

E. Morton Bradbury

E. Morton Bradbury is a British-born biophysicist and biochemist known for work on chromatin structure, especially histone acetylation, and led the Life Sciences Division at Los Alamos from 1988.

E. Newton Harvey

E. Newton Harvey (1887–1959) was an American biologist at Princeton University, known as the Dean of Bioluminescence for his study of light emission by living organisms.

E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson, known as E. O. Wilson (1929–2021), was an American Harvard biologist, the world's leading authority on ants, founder of sociobiology, and advocate for biodiversity conservation.

E. Peter Geiduschek

E. Peter Geiduschek (1928–2022) was an Austrian-born American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on DNA structure and transcription.

E. Peter Greenberg

E. Peter Greenberg is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington, widely credited with founding quorum sensing, the study of how bacteria coordinate gene expression by population density.

E. Premkumar Reddy

E. Premkumar Reddy is a molecular oncologist who cloned viral oncogenes, showed that point mutations activate the ras oncogene, and developed the anticancer drug rigosertib at Mount Sinai.

E. Richard Moxon

E. Richard Moxon, Edward Richard Moxon, born 1941, is a British microbiologist and pediatrician, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at Oxford, known for Hib meningitis vaccine research.

E. Robert Greenberg

E. Robert Greenberg is an American physician-scientist in cancer prevention epidemiology, an emeritus Dartmouth professor who led randomized trials testing whether beta carotene, antioxidant vitamins, and calcium prevent cancer.