Transplant Wobegon: Where All the Organs Are Used, All the Patients Are Transplanted, and All Programs Are Above Average

The Lake Wobegon effect: are all cancer patients above average?

CONTEXT When elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article "the Lake Wobegon effect" taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's mythical Lake Wobegon: above average and ...

Where are all the aptamers?

Finite groups all of whose proper centralizers are cyclic

‎A finite group $G$ is called a $CC$-group ($Gin CC$) if the centralizer of each noncentral element of $G$ is cyclic‎. ‎In this article we determine all finite $CC$-groups.

Where are all the undescribed fungi?

ABSTRACT The hypothesis that there are 1.5 million fungal species on Earth, of which only about 70,000 are described, implies that 1.43 million remain undescribed. The recognition that many new species have yet to be found is of fundamental importance to plant pathologists, agronomists, and plant regulatory officials, among others, who continue to encounter diseases caused by previously unknown...

Where Are All the Intelligent Agents?