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History of Tay–Sachs disease

The History of Tay–Sachs disease started with the development and acceptance of the evolution theory of disease in the 1860s and 1870s, the possibility that science could explain and even prevent or cure illness prompted medical doctors to undertake more precise description and diagnosis of disease.


Alaric Tay

A student of the late John Spencer, and a former artiste of the Singapore Armed Forces Music and Drama Company (SAF MDC), Tay is an active member of the entertainment community.

Bà Chúa Xứ

Another opinion holds that she was a Thai rebel who assisted the Nguyen dynasty emperor, Gia Long, defeat Tay Son rebels who overthrew him in the eighteenth century.

Barrancas National Cemetery

Colonel Arthur D. Simons, Special Forces commander and leader of the Son Tay raid

Becoming Royston

The film was based on the original story “Becoming Capa” written by photographer Tay Kay Chin about the struggles of a man who wants to become war photographer Robert Capa.

Bình Tây Market

Bình Tây Market was built, or at least heavily financially supported, by a Chinese businessman named Guoyan (郭琰) better known as Quách Đàm, (1863–1927), originally hailing from Chaozhou in Guangdong.

Black Flag Army

In the opinion of the British observer William Mesny, a senior officer in the Chinese army, the fighting at Son Tay broke the power of the Black Flag Army, though the stubborn defence put up by the Black Flags in the Battle of Hoa Moc fifteen months later does not bear out this assessment.

Cheong Soo Pieng

In 1955 Cheong Soo Pieng, along with five other artists Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee, Lim Hak Tai, Tay Wee Koh, and Suri bin Mohyani were invited to showcase their artworks in England, funded by fellow artist and arts patron Ho Kok Hoe.

David Rimoin

Together with Michael Kaback, he organized a California Tay-Sachs screening program that became a national model.

East of Scotland Football League

In 2013, a new Lowland League was formed covering all of Scotland, south of the River Tay to act as a direct feeder to the SPFL.

Epigram Books

They continuously publish fiction and poetry by Singapore-based writers, poets and playwrights like Jean Tay, Haresh Sharma and Kevin Keane.

Flisk

According to the 1853 Gazetteer, in part: "Flisk parish is bounded on the north by the Tay, on the south by Creich and Abdie, on the east by Balmerino and on the west by Dunbog.

Harbor–UCLA Medical Center

Michael Kaback's advances in developing and improving screening for Tay-Sachs disease, an inherited, fatal disorder.

Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

In addition, IPOS also announced the appointment of two home-grown music talents, Dick Lee and Tay Kewei, as Singapore's IP Ambassadors.

J48

Pratt & Whitney J48, a turbojet engine, a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Tay

Kifunensine

In the lysosomal storage disorders Gaucher’s and Tay-Sachs disease, endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) prevents the native folding of mutated lysosomal enzymes in a patient’s fibroblasts.

Killa Tay discography

1998: "Bacc To Bacc" (Lunasicc featuring Pizzo, Laroo & Killa Tay) from the album A Million Words, a Million Dollars

M107 self-propelled gun

The PAVN also captured a number of these M107s, fore example 4 of them were captured at Quảng Trị in March 1972, and 12 of them were taken during Tây Nguyên offensive in 1975.

North Carr Lightship

The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels entering the Forth from the North and bound for the Tay.

Ontario Highway 12

At Waubaushene, the Trans-Canada Highway designation continues north along Highway 400 towards Parry Sound and Sudbury, while Highway 12 continues west towards Victoria Harbour, Port McNicoll, and the Martyrs' Shrine.

Pamelyn Chee

Pamelyn Chee stars in HBO Asia’s original TV series Serangoon Road, alongside Joan Chen and Chin Han, Don Hany, Maeve Dermody, Michael Dorman and Alaric Tay.

Phan Huy Chú

He was a son of the scholar and official Phan Huy Ích, who had been a noted official in the short-lived Tay Son regime.

River Tay

The Tay is mentioned in William McGonagall's poems The Tay Bridge Disaster and Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay and the German poet Theodor Fontane has mentioned the Tay in his poem Die Brück' am Tay.

The first Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) living wild in Scotland in over 400 years was captured in the River Tay in 2007 because it may have been illegally released or not of the proper genetic stock.

Roscoe Brady

Dr. Brady and his colleagues identified the enzymatic defects in Gaucher disease (3.4), Niemann-Pick disease (5), Fabry disease (6) and the specific metabolic abnormality in Tay-Sachs disease (7,8).

Singapore History Gallery

Voice talents include FLY Entertainment artistes, Brendon Fernandez, Nora Samosir, Lim Yu Beng, Timothy Nga and MediaCorp artistes Alaric Tay, Lim Kay Tong, Beatrice Chang, Gerald Chew and Terrance Yap.

Tay Cheng Khoon

Tay Cheng Khoon (1948-2007) was the Sports Editor of the The Straits Times in Singapore where he had a weekly Sunday column.

Tay Eng Soon

Tay's daughter, Lucy Toh, is the current principal of the Saint Andrew's Secondary School.

One of the two libraries in the Singapore Institute of Management has been named after him, in recognition of Tay's contributions to the SIM's UK Open University Degree Programme.

Tay Kewei

In 2006, Tay Kewei joined local singing competition Project SuperStar, initially getting in to the top 24 contestants.

Tay Ping Hui

Being the all rounded artiste, Tay also later performed in the stage play Butterflies are Free, handpicked by Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko.

Tay Thye Sun

Tay Thye Sun has been practicing gemology after he graduated from the Gemological Institute of America since 1980.

Tayport

This large area of sand dunes and beach at the mouth of the Tay Estuary forms an important roosting and feeding area for huge congregations of seaduck, waders and wildfowl, as well as a haul-out area for over 2,000 both common and grey seals.

TF Carrier

Launched in 1858, the Carrier was the third and smallest vessel in a fleet of six train ferries introduced by Thomas Bouch, the engineer of the ENR/NBR, to carry the company's trains across the Forth and Tay estuaries.

This D

"This D" is a song by American hip hop recording artist TeeFlii from his first official mixtape AnNieRuO'TAY 1.

Thổ people

The Thổ ethnic group (also Keo, Mon, Cuoi, Ho, Tay Poong) inhabits the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, mainly Nghệ An province southwest of Hanoi.

TNT Express

TNT Express aircraft operate under the IATA code of TAY (TNT Airways).

Trần Cảo Rebellion

After shaving their heads, he marched them unopposed, ten thousand strong, through the Kinh Bac districts of Que Duong and Tiên Du, down to the plains of Gia Lâm to Từ Liêm in Sơn Tây Province.

Vietic languages

Ahoe: originally lived in Na Tane Subdistrict of Nakai District, and Ban Na Va village in Khamkeut District; taken to Hinboun District during the war, and then later resettled in Nakai Tay (39 households) and in Sop Hia (20 households) on the Nakai Plateau.

Wave 102

The station was founded by Douglas and June Anderson as part of The Petros Radio Group who launched Discovery AM in 1994 and Radio Waves in 1995, then decided to go for the full scale local licence with the help of their neighbour George Mackintosh (who started Radio Tay in 1980) along with a consortium who also founded Kingdom FM in Fife with the assistance of IRG (The Independent Radio Group)


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