Life and health

Gonostomatidae

Gonostomatidae (bristlemouths, portholefishes) is a family of small bioluminescent mesopelagic marine fishes in Stomiiformes; Cyclothone is among the most abundant vertebrate genera, and recent phylogenies revise its family limits.

Gonzalo Cosa

Gonzalo Cosa is an Argentine-born chemist at McGill University, Professor and Chair of Chemistry since 2024, who designs fluorescent probes and single-molecule microscopy to visualize molecular processes one at a time.

Gonzalo E. Torres

Gonzalo E. Torres is a Chilean-born American neuroscientist who studies dopamine transporter regulation, applied to schizophrenia genetics and adolescent psychiatric vulnerability, and won the 2008 PECASE award.

Goodarz Danaei

Goodarz Danaei is a physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Bernard Lown Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for the Globorisk model.

Goodpasture syndrome

Goodpasture syndrome (anti-GBM disease): autoimmune small-vessel vasculitis caused by IgG against the α3 chain of type IV collagen, causing rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and lung haemorrhage; treated with plasma exchange, cyclophosphamide, and corticosteroids.

Goose

Goose: large herbivorous waterfowl of genera Anser and Branta; domesticated from greylag and swan goose, possibly first poultry species; abundant wild populations now managed under AEWA for farm conflicts.

Goose barnacle

Goose barnacle, also gooseneck or stalked barnacle (Lepas anatifera, Pollicipes pollicipes), a filter-feeding crustacean on a fleshy stalk; source of the medieval barnacle goose myth and a valuable Iberian shellfishery.

Goose bumps

Goose bumps, or piloerection (cutis anserine, horripilation), are skin bumps from arrector pili muscle contraction under sympathetic control, triggered by cold, fear, and emotional chills; largely vestigial in humans but linked to hair follicle stem cells.

Goose Green

Goose Green is a settlement on Choiseul Sound in Lafonia, East Falkland, founded in 1875 as a tallow factory and later the Falkland Islands Company's sheep-farming headquarters; site of the first major land battle of the 1982 Falklands War.

Gooseberry

Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa), a thorny Ribes shrub of Eurasia and North Africa grown for tart green, red, white, or yellow berries; cultivated in England since 1276, famous for 19th-century gooseberry clubs and the American mildew collapse.

Gopher

Gopher (pocket gopher, family Geomyidae): burrowing rodent of North and Central America with fur-lined cheek pouches, fan-shaped plugged mounds, and burrow systems up to 2,000 square feet; distinct from moles, voles, and ground squirrels.

Gopher tortoise

Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), a burrowing tortoise of southeastern US longleaf pine forests, keystone species whose burrows shelter 300+ species; federally threatened in western DPS, IUCN Critically Endangered 2025 assessment.

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Gopherus

Gopherus, commonly called the gopher or North American tortoises, is a genus of six burrowing tortoise species native to North America, several of them among the continent's most threatened turtles.

Göran Akusjärvi

Göran Akusjärvi is a Swedish molecular biologist and virologist known for using human adenovirus to work out how RNA splicing is regulated; he retired from Uppsala University in 2024.

Goran C. Sedvall

Göran C. Sedvall is a Swedish psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for developing PET methods to measure dopamine receptors in the living human brain.

Göran Möller

Göran Möller (1936–2008) was a Swedish immunologist known for his work on B-cell activation and thymus-independent antigens, and for helping found the Scandinavian Society for Immunology in 1969.

Gord Fishell

Gord Fishell (Gordon Fishell) is a developmental neurobiologist, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School since 2017 and a group leader at the Broad Institute.

Gordita

Gordita ("little fat one"), Mexican thick nixtamalized corn-masa cake, cooked on a comal or fried, split and filled after cooking; distinct from pupusa (filled before) and arepa; also a Taco Bell item since 1998.

Gordon B. Cutler

Gordon B. Cutler, Jr. is an American endocrinologist who led the Section on Developmental Endocrinology at NIH's NICHD from 1983 to 1997, then worked with Eli Lilly.

Gordon C. S. Smith

Gordon C. S. Smith is a British obstetrician who has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge since 2001, researching placental dysfunction and stillbirth prevention.

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook, born 1932, is a British physician and medical historian known for research on tropical sprue and as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Gordon D. Logan

Gordon D. Logan, also known as Gordon Logan, is a Canadian-born cognitive psychologist, Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt, known for the 1984 race model of response inhibition.

Gordon D. Rubenfeld

Gordon D. Rubenfeld is an intensivist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, known for measuring the outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Gordon Dougan

Gordon Dougan is a microbiologist and genome scientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute known for genomic work on drug-resistant typhoid and vaccine equity.

Gordon F. Tomaselli

Gordon F. Tomaselli is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 32 years at Johns Hopkins, leading its cardiology division, before becoming dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2018.

Gordon Fain

Gordon L. Fain is an American physiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA known for research on phototransduction, the conversion of light into electrical signals in retinal photoreceptors.

Gordon Fishell

Gordon Fishell is a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for his work on inhibitory interneurons.

Gordon Guyatt

Gordon Guyatt is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University who coined evidence-based medicine in 1990 and co-founded GRADE, used by over 110 organizations worldwide.

Gordon H. Bower

Gordon H. Bower was an American experimental psychologist and learning theorist who spent his 49-year career at Stanford University studying human associative memory and mood.