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Edible mushroom
Edible mushrooms (食用菌) are fungal fruit bodies used as food, wild or cultivated. Only about 200 of 14,000 mushroom species are edible; Agaricus bisporus is the most cultivated, China produces ~94% globally.
Edible seaweed
Edible seaweed: marine macroalgae such as nori, wakame, konbu, and gim eaten as food, rooted in East Asian cuisine, about 8 million tonnes used yearly, with iodine and cadmium safety limits and EU novel food rules.
EDICT syndrome
EDICT syndrome, an acronym for its main features, is a rare autosomal dominant eye disorder caused by a microRNA mutation, producing congenital cataracts, corneal thinning, and iris hypoplasia.
Edifenphos
Edifenphos (EDDP, Hinosan), CAS 17109-49-8, is an organophosphorus rice fungicide controlling blast, ear blight, and stem rot by inhibiting phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis; introduced 1966, now not approved in the EU or US.
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a 10-item self-report questionnaire screening for depression during pregnancy and postnatally, the most widely used such screening tool.
Edinger–Westphal nucleus
The Edinger–Westphal nucleus (E-W nucleus), described by Edinger in 1885 and Westphal in 1887, is a midbrain cell group whose preganglionic neurons control pupil constriction and lens accommodation.
Edison T. Liu
Edison T. Liu, born Edison Tak-Bun Liu in 1952, is a cancer geneticist known for breast cancer genomics and the tandem duplicator phenotype, who led the Genome Institute of Singapore.
Edisto Island Serpentarium
Edisto Island Serpentarium, a reptile zoo on Highway 174, Edisto Island, SC, opened July 1999 by brothers Ted and Heyward Clamp; South Carolina's first true serpentarium, with 20+ alligators, hundreds of snakes, and low-walled outdoor exhibits.
Edith A. Perez
Edith A. Perez is an American oncologist and breast cancer researcher who led the NCCTG N9831 adjuvant trastuzumab trial and spent two decades at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
Edith Heard
Edith Heard, born 1965 in London, is a geneticist known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation, formerly EMBL Director General and now Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Edith Louise Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901–1993) was an American pathologist who founded perinatal pathology at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, performing over 10,000 perinatal autopsies and describing Potter sequence in 1946.
EdiTh trial
EdiTh (Ed.iTh, NCT05098444) is a randomized controlled trial at Philipps University Marburg testing an eight-module therapist-guided internet-based CBT program against a waiting list to improve quality of life in women with endometriosis; distinct from the UK EDITH breast screening AI trial.
Editing and modification of viral RNA
Editing and modification of viral RNA is the process by which host enzymes such as ADAR and APOBEC edit viral genomes and add chemical marks like m6A.
Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are hydrolytic quality-control reactions that remove wrong amino acids and mischarged tRNAs, maintaining the accuracy of the genetic code.
Edivoxetine
Edivoxetine (LY2216684) is Eli Lilly's investigational selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor for depression and ADHD. Three Phase 3 adjunctive MDD trials failed their primary endpoint in 2013, ending development; it was no better than placebo for ADHD.
Edman degradation
Edman degradation is a protein chemistry method that sequentially removes and identifies the N-terminal amino acid of a peptide or protein, one residue per cycle, to determine its sequence.
Edmond H. Fischer
Edmond H. Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin G. Krebs for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation.
Edmond J. Yunis
Edmond J. Yunis (1929–2023) was a Colombian-born immunologist and immunogeneticist who led immunogenetics at Harvard and Dana-Farber, known for MHC extended haplotypes, vaccine response genetics, and tetragametic chimerism.
Edmond Locard
Edmond Locard (1877–1966) was a French forensic scientist who founded the first French police laboratory in Lyon in 1910 and formulated the exchange principle, "every contact leaves a trace."
Edmond Nocard
Edmond Nocard (1850-1903), French veterinarian and Pasteur disciple, founder of veterinary microbiology; discovered Nocardia farcinica (1888), first mycoplasma (1898), and advanced tuberculosis and glanders control.
Edmondiidae
Edmondiidae (W. King, 1850) is an extinct family of shallow-burrowing Paleozoic marine bivalves, type genus Edmondia, defined by a furrowed hinge plate, ranging from Late Devonian to latest Permian.
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus, a large duck-billed hadrosaurid dinosaur of Late Cretaceous North America (76–66 Ma), with species E. regalis and E. annectens; famous for mummified fossils preserving skin, hooves, and soft-tissue crests.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939) was an American zoologist and cytologist at Columbia University whose 1905 studies of insect chromosomes established the chromosomal mechanism of sex determination.
Edmund G. Lowrie
Edmund G. Lowrie is an American nephrology researcher at Harvard and Fresenius Medical Care known for landmark studies on dialysis survival and quality of life.
Edmund H. Sonnenblick
Edmund H. Sonnenblick (1932–2007) was an American cardiologist and researcher who defined the mechanics of heart muscle contraction, laying the basis for modern heart-failure treatment.
Edmund J. Lewis
Edmund J. Lewis (1936–2023) was an American nephrologist who directed nephrology at Rush in Chicago and led the Collaborative Study Group's defining diabetic kidney disease trials.
Edmund Klein
Edmund Klein (1922–1999) was an American dermatologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo who pioneered topical chemotherapy of skin tumors with 5-fluorouracil, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.
Edmund Ware Sinnott
Edmund Ware Sinnott (1888–1968) was an American botanist and geneticist at Yale University who studied how genes control plant shape and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Edmund Y.S. Chao
Edmund Y.S. Chao is an orthopedic bioengineer and Lee Riley, Jr. Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for limb biomechanics models.
Edna Mozes
Edna Mozes is an Israeli immunologist, emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on T-cell immunology and lupus treatment.