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Binnya Ran I

Binnya Ran I (Mon: ပထမ ဗညာရာံ; Burmese: ပထမ ဗညားရံ; 1393–1446) was king of Hanthawaddy Pegu in Lower Burma from 1424 to 1446, winning Tharrawaddy and Paungde from Ava by the Treaty of Prome in 1431.

Binnya U

Binnya U, also known as Hsinbyushin, was king of the Mon-speaking kingdom of Martaban–Hanthawaddy in Lower Burma from 1348 to 1384, and made Pegu the region's lasting power center.

Binod Chaudhary

Binod Chaudhary is a Nepali businessman, chairman of the CG Corp Global conglomerate and maker of Wai Wai instant noodles, who in 2013 became Nepal's first billionaire.

Binomial options pricing model

The binomial options pricing model, also known as the Cox–Ross–Rubinstein (CRR) model, values options by modeling asset prices as up-or-down moves over many short time steps.

Bintanath

Bintanath, also spelled Bentanath or Bintanat, was the eldest daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Isetnofret, and later a great royal wife of Egypt's 19th Dynasty.

binx health

binx health, formerly Atlas Genetics, is a Boston-based molecular point-of-care diagnostics company whose FDA-cleared binx io platform tests for chlamydia and gonorrhea in about thirty minutes.

Bio-Rad Laboratories

Bio-Rad Laboratories is a life science and clinical diagnostics company founded in 1952 and headquartered in Hercules, California, selling instruments, reagents, and consumables in more than 36 countries.

Bio-Techne

Bio-Techne Corporation is a Minneapolis-based life sciences company making research reagents, analytical instruments, and diagnostics; it agreed in June 2026 to be acquired by Merck KGaA for about $11.3 billion.

BioAge Labs

BioAge Labs is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Richmond, California, developing therapies for metabolic diseases such as obesity by targeting the biology of human aging; it went public on Nasdaq in 2024.

BioBTX

BioBTX is a Dutch company based in Groningen that converts mixed plastic waste and biomass into sustainable BTX aromatics, building its first commercial plant at Delfzijl.

Biocytogen (百奥赛图)

Biocytogen (百奥赛图) is a Beijing biotechnology company founded in 2009 that pairs preclinical contract research on engineered mice with large-scale fully human antibody discovery, listed in Hong Kong since 2022.

Biodesix, Inc.

Biodesix, Inc., founded in 2005 as Elston Technologies and renamed in 2006, is a Colorado medical diagnostics company making blood-based tests for lung cancer risk assessment and treatment guidance.

Bioeconomics

Bioeconomics is a school of economic thought founded by Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, treating the economy as a physical process bound by thermodynamic limits to growth.

Bioenergetic analysis

Bioenergetic analysis is a body-oriented psychotherapy founded by Alexander Lowen and colleagues in New York in 1956, combining verbal therapy with breathing, movement, and stress positions to release chronic muscular tension.

Bioethics

Bioethics is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues in the life sciences and health care, also called biomedical ethics. It arose in the late 1960s around the Hastings Center, centers on the four principles of principlism, and spans research, clinical, public health, and AI ethics.

Biofourmis

Biofourmis is a digital health company founded in Singapore in 2015 and later US-based, providing AI-driven remote patient monitoring and hospital-at-home care; it merged with CopilotIQ in 2024.

BioGeneration Ventures

BioGeneration Ventures is a Dutch venture capital firm based in Naarden, founded in 2006, that invests at seed and Series A in early-stage European biopharmaceutical companies.

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges: FJC database of all 4,077 Article III federal judges since 1789, with service records, nomination and confirmation dates, demographics, and nightly data exports.

Biographical evaluation (علم الرجال)

Biographical evaluation (علم الرجال, ilm al-rijal), also called al-jarh wa al-ta'dil, is the Islamic discipline of judging hadith transmitters for trustworthiness and integrity to distinguish authentic hadiths from weak ones.

Biographical inscription of Djemi

The biographical inscription of Djemi is a First Intermediate Period stela in the Metropolitan Museum, recording an officer of Nubian mercenaries who claims to have enslaved northern Nubia.

Biographical inscription of Sabni

The biographical inscription of Sabni (Egyptian Sꜣbn(j)) is a hieroglyphic tomb-façade text at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan, recording the Dynasty 6 governor Sabni, son of Mekhu, under Pepi II.

Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences

Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences: NAS book series since 1877 giving life histories and bibliographies of deceased members, written by colleagues; about 1,900 memoirs online, from Agassiz to recent members.

Biographies of Eminent Monks

Biographies of Eminent Monks (高僧傳) is a collection of Buddhist monks' biographies compiled by the Liang dynasty monk Huijiao, covering 257 monks to 519 and modeling later monastic biographies.

Biographies of Immortals

Biographies of Immortals (神仙传) is a collection of lives of Daoist immortals compiled by the Eastern Jin writer Ge Hong as proof that immortality can be attained.

Biogroup

Biogroup is a French medical-biology laboratory group founded by biologist Stéphane Eimer in 1998 in Alsace, operating more than 900 sites across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, and Portugal.

Biohaven Pharmaceutical

Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd was a New Haven, Connecticut biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013 by Vlad Coric, best known for the migraine drug Nurtec ODT and acquired by Pfizer in 2022.

BioIntelliSense, Inc.

BioIntelliSense, Inc. is a health monitoring company in Golden, Colorado, co-founded by David Wang and James Mault in 2018, known for the FDA-cleared BioButton wearable and BioDashboard software.

Biointron (上海百英生物科技股份有限公司) (百英生物)

Biointron (百英生物) is a Chinese contract research organization specializing in antibody discovery, optimization, and expression, founded in 2012 in Taizhou, headquartered in Shanghai, and listed on China's NEEQ since 2025.

BioInvent International AB

BioInvent International AB is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1996 from Lund University antibody research, developing immuno-modulatory antibodies for cancer therapy.

Biola University

Biola University, formerly Biola College and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, is a private interdenominational Christian university in La Mirada, California, founded in 1908 in downtown Los Angeles.