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Overview

Michael Levin is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a total of 336 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including epidemiology, infectious diseases, surgery, public health, environmental and occupational health, and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Complications
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Neonatal and Maternal Infections
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Among recent significant publications are:

  • Clinical Characteristics of 58 Children With a Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With SARS-CoV-2, 2020, JAMA
  • COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Treatment of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2024, JAMA
  • A national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS): results of a national Delphi process, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michael Levin include:

  • Jethro Herberg
  • Federico Martinón-Torres
  • Myrsini Kaforou
  • Enitan D. Carrol
  • Marieke Emonts

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics

In addition to journal publications, Michael Levin has contributed to book literature, with at least one publication under Columbia University Press titled Here I'm Alive (2023).

Best Publications

  • A molecular pathway determining left-right asymmetry in chick embryogenesis.

    Michael Levin;Randy L Johnson;Claudio D Sterna;Michael Kuehn

  • (Open Access) Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores

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  • Left-right asymmetry in embryonic development: a comprehensive review.

    Michael Levin

  • Role of Membrane Potential in the Regulation of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

    Sarah Sundelacruz;Michael Levin;David L. Kaplan

  • Bioelectric controls of cell proliferation: Ion channels, membrane voltage and the cell cycle

    Douglas J. Blackiston;Kelly A. McLaughlin;Michael Levin

  • Asymmetries in H+/K+-ATPase and cell membrane potentials comprise a very early step in left-right patterning

    Michael Levin;Thorleif Thorlin;Kenneth R. Robinson;Taisaku Nogi

  • A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

    Sam Kriegman;Douglas Blackiston;Michael Levin;Michael Levin;Josh C. Bongard

  • About the choice of the protogenic group in PEM separator materials for intermediate temperature, low humidity operation: a critical comparison of sulfonic acid, phosphonic�…

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  • A new ultrafast superionic Li-conductor: ion dynamics in Li 11 Si 2 PS 12 and comparison with other tetragonal LGPS-type electrolytes

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  • On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems.

    František Baluška;Michael Levin

  • Molecular bioelectricity: how endogenous voltage potentials control cell behavior and instruct pattern regulation in vivo

    Michael Levin

  • Large-scale biophysics: ion flows and regeneration

    Michael Levin

  • H+ pump-dependent changes in membrane voltage are an early mechanism necessary and sufficient to induce Xenopus tail regeneration.

    Dany S. Adams;Alessio Masi;Michael Levin

  • Knowing one's place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation

    Karl Friston;Michael Levin;Biswa Sengupta;Giovanni Pezzulo

  • Early, H+-V-ATPase-dependent proton flux is necessary for consistent left-right patterning of non-mammalian vertebrates.

    Dany S. Adams;Kenneth R. Robinson;Takahiro Fukumoto;Shipeng Yuan

  • Bioelectric signaling: Reprogrammable circuits underlying embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer.

    Michael Levin

  • Molecular bioelectricity in developmental biology: new tools and recent discoveries: control of cell behavior and pattern formation by transmembrane potential gradients.

    Michael Levin

  • Serotonin signaling is a very early step in patterning of the left-right axis in chick and frog embryos.

    Takahiro Fukumoto;Ido P. Kema;Michael Levin

  • Membrane Potential Controls Adipogenic and Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

    Sarah Sundelacruz;Michael Levin;David L. Kaplan

  • Apoptosis is required during early stages of tail regeneration in Xenopus laevis

    Ai-Sun Tseng;Dany S. Adams;Dayong Qiu;Punita Koustubhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Twohig
Michael P. Twohig Utah State University
Martin L. Hibberd
Martin L. Hibberd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Lachlan J. M. Coin
Lachlan J. M. Coin University of Melbourne
Saul N. Faust
Saul N. Faust University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan Tufts University
Nigel Klein
Nigel Klein University College London
Andrew J. Pollard
Andrew J. Pollard University of Oxford
Jane C. Burns
Jane C. Burns University of California, San Diego
Taco W. Kuijpers
Taco W. Kuijpers University of Amsterdam

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