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Gull

Gulls are seabirds of the family Laridae (with terns, noddies, skimmers); 53 species per Pons et al. 2005, ranging from Bonaparte's Gull to Great Black-backed Gull, known for salt glands, shell-dropping cognition, urban adaptation, and aircraft-strike conflicts.

Gulmakalanala Rasa

Gulmakalanala Rasa (गुल्मकालानल रस) is a mercury-based Ayurvedic formulation of the Rasa Shastra tradition, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India for gulma, abdominal lumps.

Gulosus

Gulosus, Montagu 1813, is a monotypic cormorant genus holding the European shag, Gulosus aristotelis (formerly Phalacrocorax aristotelis), split from Phalacrocorax after Kennedy and Spencer 2014; coastal seabird, Least Concern.

Gumboot chiton

The gumboot chiton, also called the giant Pacific chiton or wandering meatloaf, is the world's largest chiton, a marine mollusk living on rocky shores from central California to Japan.

Gumma (pathology)

Gumma (plural gummata): a soft, necrotic granuloma of tertiary syphilis caused by Treponema pallidum, most often in skin, bone, and liver, treated with benzathine penicillin G.

Gumokimab (ankylosing spondylitis indication)

Gumokimab (古莫奇单抗, AK111, 奇佑康) is Akeso's humanized IL-17 monoclonal antibody, approved in China for plaque psoriasis, whose ankylosing spondylitis phase III met all endpoints with an NMPA NDA under review.

Gums

Gums (gingivae) are the pink tissues surrounding the base of teeth, comprising marginal, attached, and interdental gingiva. Key diseases are reversible gingivitis and irreversible periodontitis, which affects about 4 in 10 U.S. adults over 30.

Gun dog

Gun dog (gundog): a dog trained to find, point, flush, or retrieve game for hunters, grouped as pointers, flushing spaniels, retrievers, and HPR breeds; AKC Sporting Group, over 50 breeds developed in the 1700s-1800s.

GUN4-like

GUN4-like (GUN4 family, InterPro IPR037215): porphyrin- and bilin-binding proteins of cyanobacteria, algae, and plants that stimulate magnesium chelatase, the first committed step of chlorophyll biosynthesis, with orthologs and paralogs distinguished by a conserved LxNxLR motif.

Gunnar Ågren

Gunnar Ågren, born 1907 in Nacka, was a Swedish physician and biochemist who served as professor of medical chemistry at Uppsala University from 1947 to 1973.

Gunnar Blix

Gunnar Blix (Fritiof Gunnar Blix, 1894–1981) was a Swedish medical chemist, professor at Uppsala University from 1930 to 1961, known for isolating sulfatide and crystallizing sialic acid.

Gunnar C. Hansson

Gunnar C. Hansson, born 1951 in Lessebo, Sweden, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for the two-layer model of colonic mucus.

Gunnar Holmgren

Gunnar Holmgren (1875–1954) was a Swedish physician, Sweden's first professor of ear, nose, and throat diseases at Karolinska Institutet, remembered as the father of Swedish ENT for introducing the binocular operating microscope to ear surgery.

Gunnar Juliusson

Gunnar Juliusson is a Swedish hematologist and leukemia researcher, Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Lund University, known for defining the chromosomal prognostic subgroups of CLL in 1990.

Gunnar Steineck

Gunnar Steineck was a Swedish physician and professor of clinical cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg, known for patient-reported outcome research among cancer survivors.

Gunnar Svaetichin

Gunnar Svaetichin (1915–1981) was a physiologist who recorded the first intracellular light-evoked responses from the vertebrate retina, the S-potentials, opening the study of retinal interneurons and color opponency.

Gunnar Thorson

Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971) was a Danish marine zoologist and ecologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Helsingør, established Thorson's rule in 1950, and proposed parallel bottom communities.

Gunnar von Heijne

Gunnar von Heijne, born 1951 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at Stockholm University known for the positive-inside rule and tools like SignalP and TMHMM.

Gunshot wound

Gunshot wound: penetrating injury from a firearm projectile causing permanent cavitation and temporary cavitation. Also called GSW, ballistic trauma. US 2022: over 48,000 firearm deaths, about 132 daily; more than half suicides.

Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel (1936–2018) was a German-American cell biologist at The Rockefeller University who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that proteins carry intrinsic signals governing their transport in the cell.

Günter Breithardt

Günter Breithardt, born 1944 in Haan, is a German cardiologist, professor emeritus at Münster, former European Society of Cardiology president, and co-founder of AFNET, which he chaired from 2003 to 2015.

Gunter Meister

Gunter Meister is a German molecular biologist, professor and chair of Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2009, known for work on microRNAs, Argonaute proteins, and RNA interference.

Günter P. Wagner

Günter P. Wagner is an Austrian-born evolutionary biologist and Yale professor since 1991, known for his theories of homology and evolutionary novelty, bird digit identity, and the evolution of mammalian pregnancy.

Günter Weiß

Günter Weiss is an Austrian physician-scientist in internal medicine, hematology, and iron metabolism, director of Internal Medicine II at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.

Günter Wolf

Günter Wolf, also known as Gunter Wolf, is a German nephrologist born in 1961 who directs nephrology at Jena University Hospital and studies diabetic nephropathy.

Gunther Dennert

Gunther Dennert is a German-trained immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, known for work on natural killer cells and immune regulation.

Günther Deuschl

Günther Deuschl is a German neurologist who led the Department of Neurology at Kiel from 1995 to 2016 and led the randomized trials establishing deep-brain stimulation as a Parkinson's treatment.

Günther Gerisch

Günther Gerisch (1931–2025) was a German cell biologist and Max Planck Institute director known for his work on the actin cytoskeleton and the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Gunther Hartmann

Gunther Hartmann (born 1966) is a German physician and immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects nucleic acids, directing an institute at University Hospital Bonn since 2007.

Gunther S. Stent

Gunther S. Stent, born Günter Siegmund Stensch, was a German-born American molecular biologist and neurobiologist at UC Berkeley who studied bacterial viruses and the leech nervous system.