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Garden cress

Garden cress (Lepidium sativum), also called common cress or pepper cress, is a fast-growing annual Brassicaceae salad herb of the "mustard and cress" mix, with protein- and fat-rich seeds used as a functional food ingredient.

Garden roses

Garden roses: ornamental Rosa hybrids and cultivars, over 30,000 varieties, split into old garden roses (pre-1867, before 'La France', the first hybrid tea) and modern classes such as hybrid tea, floribunda, and grandiflora.

Garden slender salamander

Garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major), also Southern California slender salamander, a lungless plethodontid salamander of coastal southern California and northern Baja California, suburban-garden adapted, with the endangered desert subspecies B. m. aridus.

Gardenia

Gardenia, a genus of about 120 accepted species of fragrant shrubs in Rubiaceae named for Alexander Garden; best known species Gardenia jasminoides, source of gardenia yellow colorant.

Gardenia jasminoides

Gardenia jasminoides (Cape jasmine), a Rubiaceae shrub native from the East Himalaya to China, Indo-China, and Japan, grown for fragrant flowers; its dried fruit Zhizi yields crocins and iridoid glycosides used in traditional Chinese medicine and as a yellow colorant.

Gardening

Gardening: small-scale cultivation of plants for food, ornament, or livelihood, in home, market, and community gardens. Key facts: ancient origins, Kew founded 1759, RHS founded 1804, right plant right place principle, water-wise climate adaptation.

Gardner Lindzey

Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008) was an American social and behavioral scientist who founded the first US behavior genetics laboratory and directed Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Gardner's syndrome

Gardner's syndrome is a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis caused by APC gene mutations, inherited dominantly, combining colon polyps with osteomas, cysts, desmoid tumors, and dental abnormalities.

Gardnerella vaginalis

Gardnerella vaginalis, originally named Haemophilus vaginalis in 1955, is a facultative anaerobic bacterium of the vaginal microbiota strongly associated with bacterial vaginosis, the most common cause of vaginal discharge.

Garenoxacin

Garenoxacin (Geninax) is a des-fluoro(6) quinolone antibiotic approved in Japan in 2007 for respiratory and ENT infections, dosed 400 mg once daily, targeting DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV; US and EU applications were withdrawn.

Garetatug rezetecan

Garetatug rezetecan (SHR-A1904, 瑞康戈芮妥塔单抗) is a Hengrui anti-CLDN18.2 antibody-drug conjugate carrying the topoisomerase I inhibitor rezetecan, in phase III trials for CLDN18.2-positive gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Gareth Griffiths (cell biologist)

Gareth Griffiths is a cell biologist who led a research group at EMBL Heidelberg from 1977 to 2009, then became a professor at the University of Oslo.

Gareth J. Morgan

Gareth J. Morgan, also published as Gareth Morgan, is a hematologist directing multiple myeloma research at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center; he led the Myeloma IX trial.

GARFIELD-AF study

GARFIELD-AF (Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD–Atrial Fibrillation), NCT01090362: worldwide prospective registry of 57,262 patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation, 35 countries, 2009-2018, producing an integrated risk tool and real-world anticoagulation evidence.

Gargi Maheshwari

Gargi Maheshwari is a bioprocess engineer and Vice President of Biologics Science & Technology at Merck, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for industrial bioprocessing.

Garland Anderson (obstetrician-gynecologist)

Garland Anderson, also Garland D. Anderson, is an American obstetrician-gynecologist known for large pregnancy-complication trials and as dean of the University of Texas Medical Branch school of medicine, 2006 to 2011.

Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum), a Central Asian Allium crop grown from cloves and led in production by China; its crushed-tissue chemistry yields allicin, studied for modest cholesterol and blood pressure effects.

Garlic extract

Garlic extract (Allium sativum, CAS 8000-78-0), food grade garlic juice concentrate approved in the EU as a nematicide, insecticide, and repellent active substance until 2036, defined by diallyl polysulfide marker compounds.

Garlic pulp

Garlic pulp (EU ID 761) is a non-approved garlic-derived entry in EU pesticide records, distinct from approved garlic extract (CAS 8000-78-0), with a default MRL of 0.01 mg/kg under Regulation 396/2005.

Garmin Connect

Garmin Connect is the web platform and mobile app that Garmin fitness and outdoor devices sync with, tracking health metrics, training plans, and activities, free with an optional premium tier.

Garmin Forerunner

Garmin Forerunner: Garmin's GPS running smartwatch line since 2003, starting with the Forerunner 201, the world's first GPS running watch; current flagships are the Forerunner 570 and 970 (May 2025).

Garnett Kelsoe

Garnett Kelsoe is an American immunologist, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Immunology at Duke, known for germinal center and B cell tolerance research.

Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis

Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis (periostitis ossificans, proliferative periostitis) is a rare nonsuppurative chronic osteomyelitis of children and young adults, causing onion-skin periosteal bone, cortical thickening, negative cultures, and mainly symptomatic treatment.

Garret D. Stuber

Garret D. Stuber is a neuroscientist who studies neural circuits of reward and motivation; he is a professor at the University of Washington, where he has led a center for addiction research since 2018.

Garret FitzGerald

Garret A. FitzGerald is an Irish physician-scientist who directs ITMAT at the University of Pennsylvania and showed that low-dose aspirin prevents heart attacks and stroke.

Garri

Garri (gari) is a fermented, gelatinized dry coarse flour made from grated, pressed, and roasted cassava, a staple convenience food in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and Togo, eaten as eba or soaked, with sour flavor distinguishing it from Brazilian farinha.

Garrulax

Garrulax (Lesson, 1831) is a genus of laughingthrushes in the family Leiothrichidae of southern Asia; once broad, it was reduced after Moyle et al. 2012 split most species into Ianthocincla and Trochalopteron.

Garry Nolan

Garry P. Nolan is a Stanford immunologist known for pioneering mass cytometry and CODEX, tools that measure dozens of proteins in single cells and tissue.

Garry R. Cutting

Garry R. Cutting is a physician-scientist and professor of medical genetics at Johns Hopkins, known for classifying which CFTR gene mutations cause cystic fibrosis through the CFTR2 database.

GARS1

GARS1 (glycyl-tRNA synthetase 1, formerly GARS, GlyRS) is a human chromosome 7p14.3 gene encoding the class II homodimeric enzyme that charges tRNA with glycine; dominant mutations cause CMT2D, dHMN5A, and infantile SMA James type via toxic gain of function.