CRE or cre may refer to:

Organizations

Campaign for Real Education The Campaign for Real Education (CRE) is a right-wing pressure group and non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom that advocates for traditional education, greater parental choice in schooling, and less state regulation of subjects that chi ...

, a British educational advocacy group *

Castle Rock Entertainment Castle Rock Entertainment is an American independent film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick (September 8, 1947 – February 27, 2025) and Alan Horn. Histo ...

, an American film and television production company * Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an American lobbying firm * China Railway Express Company, a parcel and cargo shipping arm of

China Railway China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the China, People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight Rail transport in Chi ...

* Commission de régulation de l'énergie, the French energy regulator *

Commission for Racial Equality In-Commission or commissioning may refer to: Business and contracting * Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered ** Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of anot ...

, a former British government body * ''Cumann Rothaíochta na hÉireann'' (

Cycling Ireland Cycling Ireland or CI is the operating name of the national governing body of the sport of cycling in the island of Ireland. Formally the body is a charitable company limited by guarantee, the Irish Cycling Federation. CI is a member of the U ...

), an Irish national cycling organization

Science

* cAMP response element, a type of DNA sequence bound to by

CREB CREB-TF (CREB, cAMP response element-binding protein) is a cellular transcription factor. It binds to certain DNA sequences called cAMP response elements (CRE), thereby increasing or decreasing the transcription of the genes. CREB was first des ...

Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to the carbapenem class of antibiotics, considered the drugs of last resort for such infections. They ...

, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria family * Certified Reliability Engineer, an American Society for Quality (ASQ) certification *

Chemical reaction engineering Chemical reaction engineering (reaction engineering or reactor engineering) is a specialty in chemical engineering or industrial chemistry dealing with chemical reactors. Frequently the term relates specifically to catalytic reaction systems wh ...

, chemical engineering or industrial chemistry dealing with chemical reactors * Cis-acting replication element, a component of many RNA viruses *

Cis-regulatory element ''Cis''-regulatory elements (CREs) or ''cis''-regulatory modules (CRMs) are regions of non-coding DNA which regulate the transcription of neighboring genes. CREs are vital components of genetic regulatory networks, which in turn control morpho ...

, regions of non-coding DNA which regulate the transcription of ''neighboring'' genes *

Cre recombinase Cre recombinase is a tyrosine recombinase enzyme derived from the P1 bacteriophage. The enzyme uses a topoisomerase I-like mechanism to carry out site specific recombination events. The enzyme (38 kDa) is a member of the integrase family of si ...

, an enzyme that catalyzes a type of site-specific homologous recombination *

I-CreI I-CreI is a homing endonuclease whose gene was first discovered in the chloroplast genome of ''Chlamydomonas reinhardtii'', a species of unicellular green algae. It is named for the facts that: it resides in an Intron; it was isolated from ''Clamy ...

, a homing endonuclease

Transport

* CRE, LRT station abbreviation for

Coral Edge LRT station The Punggol LRT line (PGLRT) is a elevated automated guideway transit line in Punggol, Singapore. The driverless system consists of 15 stations on two loops, with Punggol station serving as the interchange for both loops and linking the lin ...

, Singapore * CRE, National Railway station code for

Crewe railway station Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world.Grand Strand Airport Grand Strand Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northwest of the central business district of North Myrtle Beach, in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The name Grand Strand refers to ...

near North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.

Other

Camp Rock Enon Camp Rock Enon or CRE is a Boy Scouts of America resident summer camp for both younger and older youth with high adventure opportunities. The mineral springs of the area afforded the development of a resort in 1856. 89 years later in 1944 the re ...

, a Boy Scout camp in Virginia * Commander, Royal Engineers, the senior

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is the engineering arm of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces ...

officer in a British Army division, usually a lieutenant-colonel * Commercial real estate, see

Commercial property Commercial property, also called commercial real estate, investment property or income property, is real estate (buildings or land) intended to generate a Profit (economics), profit, either from capital gains or Renting, rental income. Commercial ...

Common Recruitment Examination Common Recruitment Examination () is an examination for the recruitment of civil servants in Hong Kong. It consists of three 45-minute papers, namely Use of English (UE), Use of Chinese (UC) and Aptitude Test (AT). Candidates' results in th ...

, an examination for recruiting civil servants in Hong Kong * Corporate real estate, real property held or used by a business enterprise or organization for its own operational purposes {{disambiguation