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Biology

  • Myosin heavy chain - part of the motor protein myosin
    Myosin
    Myosins are a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues. They are responsible for actin-based motility.Following the discovery by Pollard and Korn of enzymes with myosin-like function in Acanthamoeba castellanii, a large number of divergent myosin genes have been discovered...

    's quaternary protein structure

Immunology

  • Major histocompatibility complex
    Major histocompatibility complex
    The major histocompatibility complex is a large genomic region or gene family found in most vertebrates. It is the most gene-dense region of the mammalian genome and plays an important role in the immune system and autoimmunity. The diversity of MHC is important in the immune diversity in the...

     - a highly polymorphic region on chromosome 6 with genes particularly involved in immune functions

Colleges

  • Mars Hill College
    Mars Hill College
    Mars Hill College is a private, coed, liberal-arts college affiliated with the North Carolina Baptist Convention. The college is located in the small town of Mars Hill, North Carolina, due north of Asheville, western North Carolina's largest city...

     - a coeducational, liberal-arts college affiliated with the North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties...

     Baptist
    Baptist
    A Baptist is a Christian who subscribes to a theology and may belong to a church that, among other things, is committed to believer's baptism and, with respect to church polity, favors the congregational model...

     Convention in Mars Hill, North Carolina
    Mars Hill, North Carolina
    Mars Hill is a town in Madison County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,764 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Mars Hill College, and is named after the college. The town is located approximately one mile west of Interstate 26, and due north of Asheville, western North...

    , USA

  • Mount Holyoke College
    Mount Holyoke College
    Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is a member of the Seven Sisters and one of the oldest women's colleges in the United States...

     - a liberal arts
    Liberal arts college
    Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in...

     women's college
    Women's colleges in the United States
    Women's colleges in the United States are U.S. institutions of higher education that exclude or limit males from admission. They are often liberal arts colleges...

     and a member of the Seven Sisters
    Seven Sisters (colleges)
    The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. They are Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College. All were founded between 1837 and...

     in South Hadley
    South Hadley, Massachusetts
    South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,196 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area....

    , Massachusetts
    Massachusetts
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of...

    , USA

People

  • Matthew Henry
    Matthew Henry
    Matthew Henry , was an English commentator.-Life:He was born at Broad Oak, a farmhouse on the borders of Flintshire and Shropshire. His father, Philip Henry, had just been ejected by the Act of Uniformity 1662. Unlike most of his fellow-sufferers, Philip possessed some private means, and was thus...

     Commentary (Biblical
    Bible
    The Bible contains the central religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, as it is written almost entirely in the Hebrew language, with some small portions in Aramaic...

    )
  • Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Higgins Clark, née Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins , is an American author of suspense novels...

    , American suspense author