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U Scorpii

U Scorpii is a recurrent nova in the constellation Scorpius, a binary system whose white dwarf suffers thermonuclear eruptions about every ten years, most recently in 2022.

Sep 24, 2026

U Tak

U Tak (우탁) was a Goryeo dynasty Confucian scholar and official who died in 1342, the first in Korea to master and teach Cheng Yi's Yijing commentary.

U Thant (ဦးသန့်)

U Thant (ဦးသန့်), Burmese diplomat and third UN Secretary-General 1961–1971; mediated the Cuban Missile Crisis, sought Vietnam peace, and is remembered through U Thant House in Yangon.

Oct 22, 2026

U Thong style

U Thong style is a style of Buddha images made in central Thailand from the late twelfth to the fifteenth century, bridging Lopburi and early Ayutthaya art.

U Turn is Oliver Stone's 1997 neo-noir thriller, written by John Ridley from his novel Stray Dogs, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. A gambler stranded in Superior, Arizona is caught between a couple who each want the other dead; shot in 42 days for $20 million, it grossed $6.6 million.

U Turn (2016 film)

U Turn (2016) is a Kannada-language mystery thriller written, produced, and directed by Pawan Kumar, starring Shraddha Srinath in her debut. A journalist investigating illegal U-turns on a Bengaluru flyover becomes entangled in deaths; remade in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Filipino, and Hindi.

U Turn (2018 film)

U Turn (2018): Pawan Kumar's Tamil-Telugu bilingual remake of his 2016 Kannada thriller, starring Samantha Akkineni as a journalist probing flyover U-turn deaths; released 13 September 2018, UA, budget est. 15 crore.

Sep 24, 2026

U Wisara

U Wisara (ဦးဝိစာရ) was a Burmese Buddhist monk and nationalist activist who died in prison in 1929 after a 166-day hunger strike against British rule in Burma.

U-118MG

U-118MG (U-118 MG, U118) is a human glioblastoma cell line, Cellosaurus CVCL_0633, ATCC HTB-15, established in 1968; shown to be a contaminated U-138MG derivative with homozygous PTEN and TP53 mutations, used widely in glioma drug screening.

U-138MG

U-138MG, also written U138 or U-138 MG, is a human cancer cell line from a malignant brain glioma, established in 1968 and widely used in glioblastoma research.

U-178MG

U-178MG (CVCL_A758) is a human astrocytoma/glioblastoma cell line established at Uppsala in the 1970s by Westermark, Pontén, and Mark; male donor, 45-hour doubling time, homozygous PTEN and heterozygous TP53 mutations, GFAP-negative, used in DepMap and CellMinerCDB.

U-251MG

U-251MG (U251, CVCL_0021) is a human glioblastoma/astrocytoma cell line from a 75-year-old male, established in 1960s Uppsala; TP53/PTEN mutant, NCI-60 member, known for U-373 cross-contamination and subclone genetic drift.

U-343MG

U-343MG (CVCL_S471), also written U343MG or U-343, is a human glioblastoma cell line from a male donor's temporal lobe, GFAP-negative and mesenchymal, part of the U-343 same-tumor panel with U-343MGa.

U-373MG ATCC

U-373MG ATCC (CVCL_2219, HTB-17) is a human glioblastoma/astrocytoma cell line shown by STR profiling and sequencing to be a U-251MG derivative, not the original 1973 Uppsala U-373MG line; ICLAC-00295, ATCC distribution discontinued.

U-373MG Uppsala

U-373MG Uppsala, also written U-373 MG (Uppsala), is the original human glioblastoma astrocytoma cell line, established in 1973 at the University of Uppsala and distinguished from the widely distributed stock that is actually U-251 MG.

U-47700

U-47700 (trans-3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamide) is a non-fentanyl synthetic opioid, a selective μ-opioid receptor agonist developed by Upjohn in the 1970s, about 7.5 times more potent than morphine, linked to overdose deaths and scheduled in Schedule I (US CSA, 2016; UN Single Convention 61/I, 2017).

U-571 (film)

U-571 (2000) is a Jonathan Mostow submarine thriller starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey Keitel, in which American sailors steal an Enigma machine from a German U-boat, a role historically played by the British.

Oct 20, 2026

U-87MG ATCC

U-87MG ATCC (HTB-14, CVCL_0022), also called U87MG or U87, is a widely used human glioblastoma cell line of male CNS origin that is misidentified: it is not the original 1968 Uppsala U87MG line from a 44-year-old woman.

Oct 20, 2026

U-937

U-937 (U937) is a human pro-monocytic leukemia cell line established in 1974 from a 37-year-old man's histiocytic lymphoma pleural effusion; widely used to study monocyte-macrophage differentiation, apoptosis, and inflammation.

U-Bahn Serfaus

U-Bahn Serfaus (Dorfbahn Serfaus) is a driverless air-cushion funicular with cable drive in Serfaus, Tyrol, opened 14 December 1985. A 1,280 m tunnel links four stations; free, capacity 3,000 per hour after a 26-million-euro 2017–2019 renovation.

u-blox

u-blox is a Swiss semiconductor company in Thalwil that makes GNSS positioning receiver chips and modules, founded in 1997 and acquired by Advent International in 2025.

u-blox PointPerfect

u-blox PointPerfect is a family of high-precision GNSS correction services sold by the Swiss company u-blox, launched in 2021 to bring satellite positioning to centimeter accuracy.

u-blox ZED-F9P

The u-blox ZED-F9P is a multi-band GNSS receiver module by u-blox of Thalwil, Switzerland, announced in 2018 as the first mass-market receiver using GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou together for centimeter-level RTK accuracy.

U-boat

U-boat, from the German Unterseeboot (undersea boat), is the English term for German military submarines of the World Wars, whose Atlantic campaigns sank over 5,000 ships in the First and 3,500 in the Second.

U-box domain

U-box domain: a ~70-amino-acid modified RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase domain lacking zinc coordination, stabilized by hydrogen bonds and salt bridges; prototype yeast Ufd2 (E4); 8 human U-box E3s including CHIP and PRP19.

U-duality

U-duality is the largest discrete duality symmetry of string theory and M-theory on a torus, combining T-duality with S-duality; for M-theory on T^d the group is E_d(d)(Z).

U-ENDURE trial

U-ENDURE (NCT03345823) is AbbVie's phase 3, 52-week randomized withdrawal maintenance trial of oral upadacitinib 15 mg and 30 mg versus placebo in Crohn's disease responders to U-EXCEL/U-EXCEED induction, showing superior clinical remission and endoscopic response.