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Fangji Huangqi Tang
防己黄芪汤 (Fangji Huangqi Decoction), a classical Chinese formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yao Lue, combining Stephania tetrandra, astragalus, atractylodes, licorice, ginger, and jujube for wind-water edema; listed in China's 2023 classic formula catalogue.
Fangtooth
Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta, common fangtooth, ogrefish), a small bathypelagic fish of Anoplogastridae found worldwide in tropical to temperate seas, with the largest teeth relative to body size of any fish, living at 500–2,000 m depth.
Fanniidae
Fanniidae, the lesser house fly family, is a small worldwide family of calyptrate flies with over 360 species in five genera including Fannia; flattened larvae breed in decaying matter, dung, and carrion, giving the family forensic importance.
Fanregratinib
Fanregratinib (HMPL-453, ATLED, 凡瑞格拉替尼) is HUTCHMED's oral selective FGFR1/2/3 inhibitor for FGFR2-fusion intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; its pivotal Phase II showed 42.5% ORR and 16.6-month median OS, with NMPA priority review in December 2025.
Fanxin Long
Fanxin Long is an American bone and developmental biologist who studies how signaling pathways control osteoblast differentiation, holding an endowed chair at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2018.
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV-FE, formerly Russian spring-summer encephalitis) is the most severe TBE virus subtype, tick-borne via Ixodes persulcatus in far-eastern Russia, China, and Japan, with case fatality around 20% or higher.
Far-western blotting
Far-western blotting, also called Far-Western Blot, is a membrane-based molecular biology method derived from the western blot that detects direct protein–protein interactions using a labeled bait protein probe.
FAR1, DNA binding domain
FAR1 DNA binding domain (InterPro IPR004330, Pfam PF03101): an N-terminal C2H2 zinc-finger domain of the WRKY-GCM1 superfamily in plant FHY3/FAR1 transposase-derived transcription factors, binding the FBS motif CACGCGC.
Farage
Farage (CVCL_3302, ATCC CRL-2630) is a human EBV-positive B lymphocyte cancer cell line established in 1990 from a 70-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; it produces no immunoglobulin and is a PMBL-related research model.
Farahe Maloof
Farahe Maloof is an endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, publishing from 1951 on radioactive iodine therapy and thyrotropin-secreting pituitary tumors.
Farber disease
Farber disease (Farber lipogranulomatosis, acid ceramidase deficiency) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder from ASAH1 mutations, causing ceramide buildup, painful deformed joints, subcutaneous nodules, and hoarseness, usually fatal in infancy.
Farees (Fary) Khan
Farees (Fary) Khan is an Australian rehabilitation medicine physician who directs Rehabilitation Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and was elected to the United States National Academy of Medicine.
Faricimab
Faricimab (Vabysmo) is a bispecific VEGF-A/Ang-2 antibody eye injection approved 2022 for wet AMD and diabetic macular edema, and 2023 for retinal vein occlusion, with dosing up to every 16 weeks.
Farid Fata
Farid Fata, Lebanese-born Michigan hematologist-oncologist, owner of Michigan Hematology Oncology; misdiagnosed 553 patients with cancer, billed $34 million in fraudulent claims, sentenced in 2015 to 45 years in federal prison.
Farletuzumab
Farletuzumab (MORAb-003) is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against folate receptor alpha for ovarian cancer; its phase III trials missed PFS endpoints, and it now anchors the ADC farletuzumab ecteribulin (MORAb-202).
Farm
Farm: an agricultural holding of land, labor, capital, and management producing crops or livestock. Also called family farm when household-operated; FAO definitions, farm systems, and the farm size-productivity relationship distinguish it from agribusiness.
Farm Animal Welfare Committee
The Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC) was a body of experts that advised Defra and the Scottish and Welsh governments on the treatment of farmed animals from 2011.
Farm animal welfare organizations
Farm animal welfare organizations are charities, professional associations, and federations dedicated to improving the treatment of livestock raised for food, through campaigning, legislation, and certification.
Farm cat
Farm cat (barn cat, working cat): an outdoor Felis catus kept on farms for rodent control, continuing a commensal cat-human relationship begun in the Near East about 9,000 years ago; effectiveness debated, with Toxoplasma and wildlife risks.
Farm Fresh (company)
Farm Fresh Berhad (FFB, formerly The Holstein Milk Company) is a Malaysian vertically integrated dairy producer founded by Loi Tuan Ee, listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2022, known for fresh RTD milk, Inside Scoop ice cream, and Southeast Asian expansion.
Farm price
Farm price (farm-gate price): the price a farmer receives at the farm or first point of sale, before transport, processing, and retail margins; typically 15–40% of retail for commodity crops, tracked by FAO, USDA, and Defra indices.
Farmer
Farmer: a person who operates a farm, also called a farm operator. Covers family farms and smallholders (570 million farms, 90% family-run), US producer demographics, income, and technology adoption.
Farmer field school
A farmer field school (FFS) is a field-based adult education approach, developed by FAO in Indonesia in 1989, in which farmers experiment and make their own crop decisions.
Farmer lung
Farmer lung (farmer's lung disease, mouldy hay disease) is hypersensitivity pneumonitis from inhaled actinomycete and fungal spores in mouldy hay, straw, or grain; ICD-11 code CA70.0, causing dyspnoea, cough, fever, and possible chronic disability.
Farmer-managed natural regeneration
Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is an agroforestry practice in which farmers protect and prune trees regrowing from living stumps, pioneered in Niger in 1983 by Tony Rinaudo.
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), a USDA program established in 1992, gives WIC participants coupons for fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables at authorized farmers, farmers markets, and roadside stands; operates in 49 states.
Farming systems
A farming system is a group of broadly similar farms, or the combination of crops, livestock, and trees a household manages, forming the standard framework for agricultural development agencies.
Farming systems in India
Farming systems in India: mixed crop-livestock farming predominates; small and marginal holdings are 86% of farms on 47% of land; integrated farming systems (IFS) and climate-resilient practices drive recent 4.45% decadal growth.
Farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase
Farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase (squalene synthase, EC 2.5.1.21, FDFT1) condenses two farnesyl diphosphate molecules via presqualene diphosphate and NADPH into squalene, the first committed step of sterol biosynthesis and a cholesterol-lowering drug target.
Farooq Azam
Farooq Azam, born 1940 in Lahore, is a marine microbiologist and emeritus professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who coined the microbial loop concept and won the 2026 Kyoto Prize.