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Fewer Dead Trees, More Engagement

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Defines Dead Spot More Clearly

In 1998, researchers at the University of Maryland discovered a new disease of creeping bentgrass caused by an unidentified species of Ophiosphaerella. Through morphological and molecular study, it was shown that the pathogen constituted a new species, Ophiosphaerella agrostis, and the disease was named bentgrass dead spot. Subsequently, O. agrostis was found in Texas and Florida causing dead s...

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Conformational splitting: A more powerful criterion for dead-end elimination

Dead-end elimination (DEE) is a powerful theorem for selecting optimal protein side-chain orientations from a large set of discrete conformations. The present work describes a new approach to dead-end elimination that effectively splits conformational space into partitions to more efficiently eliminate dead-ending rotamers. Split DEE makes it possible to complete protein design calculations tha...

Extracorporeal lung assist: more than kicking a dead horse?

U p to now, the history of extracorporeal lung support has been a tale of great expectations and even greater disappointments. In 1972, HILL et al. [1] published the first case report on the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in a young patient who suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after trauma. At that time, mortality rates from ARDS were extremely high an...