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2 unusual facts about Gravis


Gravis

Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, manufacturer of computer peripherals, soundcards and joysticks

Wavetable synthesis

Starting around 1993, with the introduction of Creative Labs' Sound Blaster AWE32 and Gravis' Ultrasound sound cards, the term "wavetable" started to be applied as a marketing term to any sound card that used PCM samples as the basis of sound creation.


Autoimmunity

Recently, PTPN22 has been associated with multiple autoimmune diseases including Type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease, Addison’s disease, Myasthenia Gravis, vitiligo, systemic sclerosis juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis.

Edward Tobinick

Tobinick has been issued patents for methods of perispinal administration, of certain recombinant DNA-derived (biologic) therapeutics including the TNF receptor fusion protein etanercept, for the treatment of certain neurologic disorders with widespread unmet medical need, including Alzheimer's disease; pain due to cancer metastasis to bone; severe, intractable, intervertebral disc-related pain and radiculopathy (including sciatica); and myasthenia gravis.

Gradus Gravis affair

The Gradus Gravis affair (in English: Serious Degree) was a scheme of people operating in Tallinn providing prescriptions of controlled psychotropic drugs to people, mostly of Finnish origin, for a fee.

Gradus Gravis OÜ, once a fully licensed psychiatric clinic, opened an office near the Tallinn Passenger Port — thus, being easily accessible to people of Helsinki —, offering prescriptions of certain controlled psychotropic drugs (most notably Subutex) to everybody who would pay a fee.


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