Takao Shimizu

Molecular signature of COVID-19 prior to its exacerbation by multi-omics survey

The paper identifies a molecular signature in early-stage COVID-19 patients that predicts disease exacerbation using multi-omics analysis of plasma samples.

MBOAT2 limits the amounts of PUFA in phosphatidylcholine of neonatal and dystrophic skeletal muscle and promotes muscle regeneration

This study identifies MBOAT2 as a key enzyme that limits PUFA in PC and promotes muscle regeneration in dystrophic and neonatal muscle.

Convolutional networks can model the functional modulation of the MEG responses associated with feed-forward processes during visual word recognition

The paper uses a convolutional neural network to model MEG responses during visual word recognition, showing it can predict key evoked response components and simulate reading processes.

A highly efficient gene disruption strategy reveals lipid co-regulatory networks

This paper introduces GENF, a gene disruption strategy that avoids clone isolation, enabling reliable lipidomics analysis and revealing lipid co-regulatory networks.