Publications by authors named "D E Shasha"

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  • The study focused on understanding the prevalence and clinical implications of Dientamoeba fragilis (DF) and Blastocystis (Bs) in the stool samples of children under 18 years old.
  • Out of 36,008 children tested, 32.5% had DF and 7.9% had Bs, but these infections didn't lead to significantly more health issues compared to those with negative results, except for some abdominal pain in DF-positive cases.
  • The findings suggest that while DF and Bs are common in children's stool, they likely have limited clinical importance, especially when compared to known pathogenic microorganisms.
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-chronic graft vs. host disease (cGVHD) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. We aimed to analyze advances in treatment strategy and outcomes during the last decade due to the incorporation of novel immunosuppressive therapy (IST) drugs in the armamentarium.

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Rational computational design is crucial to the pursuit of novel drugs and therapeutic agents. Meso-scale cyclic peptides, which consist of 7-40 amino acid residues, are of particular interest due to their conformational rigidity, binding specificity, degradation resistance, and potential cell permeability. Because there are few natural cyclic peptides, design involving non-canonical amino acids is a potentially useful goal.

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A network, whose nodes are genes and whose directed edges represent positive or negative influences of a regulatory gene and its targets, is often used as a representation of causality. To infer a network, researchers often develop a machine learning model and then evaluate the model based on its match with experimentally verified "gold standard" edges. The desired result of such a model is a network that may extend the gold standard edges.

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