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Tuoli Xiaodu San

Tuoli Xiaodu San (托里消毒散), a classic Chinese medicine formula from Chen Shigong's Waike Zhengzong, traces to Xue Ji; 12 herbs, boosts qi and blood, drains pus; used for deficiency-pattern suppurative sores.

Tuolumne (supercomputer)

Tuolumne is an unclassified petascale supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, sharing the architecture of El Capitan at one-tenth the scale, with a peak performance of 288.9 petaflops.

Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen (born 1976, Kitee, Finland), founder, keyboardist, and sole lyricist of symphonic metal band Nightwish (1996), also made the 2014 solo album Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge and the project Auri.

Tuomas Knowles

Tuomas P. J. Knowles is a biophysical chemist who holds the 1920 Professorship of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge and studies protein aggregation underlying Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Tuomas Sandholm

Tuomas Sandholm is a Finnish-born computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University known for combinatorial auctions, optimizing the U.S. national kidney exchange, and the Libratus and Pluribus poker AIs.

Tuomas Tammela

Tuomas Tammela is a Finnish cancer biologist and associate member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for work on Wnt signaling in lung adenocarcinoma.

Tuomo Suntola

Tuomo Suntola, born 1943 in Tampere, Finland, is a Finnish physicist who invented atomic layer deposition in 1974 and won the 2018 Millennium Technology Prize.

Tuomo Ylipulli

Tuomo Sakari Ylipulli (1965-2021), Finnish ski jumper from Rovaniemi; Olympic team large hill gold at Calgary 1988 and World team titles 1985 and 1987; won Bischofshofen 1987; brother of Jukka and Raimo Ylipulli.

TUORA trial

TUORA (NCT06584435, TUOAD-RCC) is a single-arm phase 2 trial of adjuvant toripalimab 240 mg every 3 weeks for 17 cycles after nephrectomy in high-risk renal cell carcinoma, at Tianjin Medical University Second Hospital; interim results showed 100% disease-free survival at 24 months.

Tuotuo

Tuotuo (脱脱) was a Yuan-dynasty statesman and general who twice served as right chancellor, directed the compilation of the Liao, Jin, and Song histories, and led the Yellow River repair.

Tuoxi Technology

Tuoxi Technology (拓烯科技) is a Chinese specialty-polymer startup founded in 2020 in Quzhou, Zhejiang, producing high-end optical resins, notably cyclic olefin copolymer, for import substitution.

Túpac Amaru

Túpac Amaru (Túpac Amaru I, 1545–1572), last ruler of the Neo-Inca state of Vilcabamba, son of Manco Inca; captured and beheaded in 1572 under Viceroy Toledo; namesake of rebel leader Túpac Amaru II.

Túpac Amaru II

Túpac Amaru II, born José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera (1738-1781), was a Quechua cacique who led the 1780-1781 Great Rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru, the largest indigenous uprising in colonial Spanish America, and was executed in Cusco on 18 May 1781.

Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, MRTA) was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization that fought the Peruvian state from 1984 until the late 1990s.

Túpac Huallpa

Túpac Huallpa, also rendered Toparpa, was a son of the Inca emperor Huayna Capac whom Pizarro installed as puppet Sapa Inca in 1533; he died weeks later.

Túpac Inca Yupanqui

Túpac Inca Yupanqui (Thupa Inka Yupanki) was the tenth Inca emperor, son and successor of Pachacuti, reigning from about 1471 to 1493 and consolidating the empire's borders.

Túpac Katari

Túpac Katari, born Julián Apaza, was an Aymara indigenous leader of Upper Peru who led the siege of La Paz in 1781 and was executed that November.

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), also 2Pac or Makaveli, American rapper and actor, West Coast hip-hop icon. Born Lesane Parish Crooks; son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur; albums 2Pacalypse Now and All Eyez on Me; killed in Las Vegas 1996, killer convicted 2026.

Tupac Yupanqui

Tupac Yupanqui (Thupa Yupanki), also written Topa Inca Yupanqui, ruled the Inca state from 1471 to 1493 and brought most of the Central Andes under Inca rule.

Tupai Medical

Tupai Medical (图湃医疗) is a Chinese medical device startup founded in 2017 as a Tsinghua University technology-transfer project, headquartered in Beijing and known for ophthalmic OCT and surgical microscopes.

Tupaia

Tupaia (tree shrews), genus of 15 Southeast Asian squirrel-like mammals in order Scandentia, closer to primates than rodents; Tupaia belangeri is a key laboratory model for hepatitis, myopia, and stress research.

Tupaia (navigator)

Tupaia (c.1725–1770), Ra'iātean high priest, arioi, and star navigator, joined Cook's Endeavour in 1769 as guide, interpreter, and diplomat, drew the famous 74-island Pacific chart, mediated with Māori, and died in Jakarta in 1770.

Tupaia belangeri

Tupaia belangeri, the northern treeshrew (北树鼩), is a squirrel-like Scandentia mammal from South and Southeast Asia, a dichromat, IUCN Least Concern, and a primate-related biomedical model animal.

Tupaia glis

Tupaia glis, the common treeshrew (Sorex glis, Diard 1820, Penang Island), is a small diurnal Scandentia mammal of the Malay Peninsula region; Least Concern, EOO 273,160 km², monogamous, omnivorous, a taxonomically revised species complex.

Tupaiidae

Tupaiidae, treeshrews, family of the order Scandentia of small Southeast Asian mammals most closely related to primates; genera Tupaia, Dendrogale, Anathana; most species diverged within the past 20 million years.

Tupamaros

Tupamaros (MLN-T), Uruguayan urban guerrilla movement founded 1965, named for Túpac Amaru; rejected rural foco warfare, fought 1963–1973, was crushed by the army in 1972, and later reentered politics via the Frente Amplio.

Tupan Patera

Tupan Patera, a 79-km-wide active volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 141°W, 19°S, named for a Tupi-Guarani thunder god; persistent hot spot with lava-lake activity, ~26 m³/s effusion, colorful sulfur-lava surface.

Tupanvirus

Tupanvirus (Tupanvirus soda lake, Tupanvirus deep ocean) is a genus of tailed giant Mimiviridae viruses discovered in 2018 in Brazilian soda lakes and deep-ocean sediments, with the longest viral tail known and a nearly complete translation apparatus lacking only the ribosome.

Tupelo Honey

Tupelo honey is a monofloral honey from white tupelo gum trees along Florida's Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola, and Ochlockonee rivers, prized for flavor and resistance to granulation; also a 1971 Van Morrison album and a restaurant chain.

Tupelo, Mississippi

Tupelo, Mississippi: Lee County city of about 38,000 in the Mississippi Hills, birthplace of Elvis Presley, first TVA-electrified city, regional retail and healthcare hub anchored by North Mississippi Medical Center.