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Pio-Lopez, L., Levin, M. (2024), Aging as a loss of morphostatic information: a developmental bioelectricity perspective, Ageing Research Reviews, 2024, 97:102310
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2024), Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language, Physics of Life Reviews, 2024 doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2024.04.007
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Balasubramanian, S., Weston, D., Levin, M., Davidian, D. C. C. (2024), Electroceuticals: emerging applications beyond the nervous system and excitable tissues, Trends Pharmacol Sci, 2024, 2109
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Balasubramanian, S., Weston, D., Levin, M., Davidian, D. C. C. (2024), Charging Ahead: Examining the future therapeutic potential of electroceuticals, Advanced Therapeutics, 2024, 2300344
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O’Brien, T., Stremmel, J., Pio-Lopez, L., McMillen, P., Rasmussen-Ivey, C., and Levin, M. (2024), Machine Learning for Hypothesis Generation in Biology and Medicine: Exploring the latent space of neuroscience and developmental bioelectricity, Digital Discovery, 3(2): 249-263
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Seifert, G., Sealander, A., Marzen, S., and Levin, M. (2024), From reinforcement learning to agency: Frameworks for understanding basal cognition, BioSystems, 235(1): 105107
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Ciaunica, A., Levin, M., Rosas, F. E., and Friston, K. (2023), Nested Selves: Self-Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans, Topics in Cognitive Science, in press, doi:10.1111/tops.12717
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Rouleau, N., and Levin, M. (2023), The Multiple Realizability of Sentience in Living Systems and Beyond, eNeuro, 10(11), doi:10.1523/eneuro.0375-23.2023
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Mathews, J., and Levin, M. (2023) Cancer’s unique bioelectric properties: from cells to body-wide networks, Comment on: “The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells” by Elisabetta Di Gregorio, Simone Israel, Michael Staelens, Gabriella Tankel, Karthik Shankar, and Jack A. Tuszynski, Physics of Life Reviews, 47: 113-115
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Levin, M. (2023), Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis as a Teleonomic Process, in Corning, P. A., Kauffman, S. A., Noble, D., Shapiro, J. A., Vane-Wright, R. I. Pross, A. (Eds.), Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 175-197
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Clawson, W. P., and Levin, M. (2023), Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4): 457-486
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Cervera, J., Levin, M., and Mafé, S. (2023), Correcting instructive electric potential patterns in multicellular systems: External actions and endogenous processes, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, 1867(10): 130440
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Lagasse, E., and Levin, M. (2023), Future Medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body, Trends in Molecular Medicine, 29(9): 687-710
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Rouleau, N., and Levin, M. (2023), Multiple ways to implement and infer sentience: Commentary on Segundo-Ortiz & Calvo on Plant Sentience, Animal Sentience, 8(33): 30
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Witkowski, O., Doctor, T., Solomonova, E., Duane, B., and Levin, M. (2023), Towards an Ethics of Autopoietic Technology: Stress, Care, and Intelligence, Biosystems, 231: 104964
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Cervera, J., Levin, M., and Mafé, S. (2023), Bioelectricidad en agregados multicelulares de células no excitables: modelos biofísicos, Revista Española de Física, 37(2): 24-29

Ciaunica, A., Shmeleva, E. V., and Levin, M. (2023), The Brain is not Mental! Coupling Neuronal and Immune Cellular Processing in Human Organisms, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17: 1057622
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Watson, R., and Levin, M. (2023), The collective intelligence of evolution and development, Collective Intelligence, 2(2), doi:10.1177/26339137231168355
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Levin, M. (2023), Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind, Animal Cognition, doi:10.1007/s10071-023-01780-3
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Levin, M. (2023), Darwin’s agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 80: 142
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Pio-Lopez, L., and Levin, M. (2023), Morphoceuticals: Perspectives for discovery of drugs targeting anatomical control mechanisms in regenerative medicine, cancer and aging, Drug Discovery Today, 28(6): 103585
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Blackiston, D., Kriegman, S., Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2023), Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field, Soft Robotics, 10(4): 694-686
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Davies, J., and Levin, M. (2023), Synthetic morphology with agential materials, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 1(1): 46-59
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Cervera, J., Levin, M., and Mafe, S. (2023), Bioelectricity of non-excitable cells and multicellular pattern memories: Biophysical modeling, Physics Reports, 1004: 1-31, doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2022.12.003
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Pio-Lopez, L., Kuchling, F., Tung, A., Pezzulo, G., and Levin, M. (2022), Active Inference, Morphogenesis, and Computational Psychiatry, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 16: 988977
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Levin, M. (2022), Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species, Animal Sentience, 7(32): 15
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Doctor, T., Witkowski, O., Solomonova, E., Duane, B., and Levin, M. (2022), Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence, Entropy, 24(5): e24050710
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2022), Competency in Navigating Arbitrary Spaces as an Invariant for Analyzing Cognition in Diverse Embodiments, Entropy, 24(6): 819
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Levin, M., and Yuste, R. (2022), Modular cognition, Aeon Essays
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Watson, R. A., Levin, M., and Buckley, C. L. (2022), Design for an Individual: Connectionist approaches to the evolutionary transitions in individuality, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 823588
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Levin, M. (2022), Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16: 768201
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Nanos, V., and Levin, M. (2022), Multi-scale Chimerism: an experimental window on the algorithms of anatomical control, Cells and Development, 169: 203764
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Grodstein, J., and Levin, M. (2022), A Computational Approach to Explaining Bioelectrically-induced Persistent, Stochastic Changes of Axial Polarity in Planarian Regeneration, Bioelectricity, 4(1): 18-30
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Yuste, R., and Levin, M. (2021), New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence, Scientific American, December 2021
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Abramson, C., and Levin, M. (2021), Behaviorist Approaches to Investigating Memory and Learning: A Primer for Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 14(1): 230-247
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McMillen, P., Oudin, M. J, Levin, M., and Payne, S. L. (2021), Beyond Neurons: Long Distance Communication in Development and Cancer, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9: 739024
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Levin, M. (2021), Bioelectrical approaches to cancer as a problem of the scaling of the cellular self, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 165: 102-113
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2021), Metabolic limits on classical information processing by biological cells, BioSystems, 209: 104513
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Davidian, D., and Levin, M. (2021), Inducing Vertebrate Limb Regeneration: A Review of Past Advances and Future Outlook, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a040782
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Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F., and Levin, M. (2021), Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021(2): niab013
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Levin, M. (2021), Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 114-133
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Ebrahimkhani, M., and Levin, M. (2021), Synthetic living machines: A new window on life, iScience, 24(5): 102505
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Levin, M. (2021), Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework, Biology and Philosophy, 36(2): 17
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Levin, M. (2021), Bioelectric Signaling: Reprogrammable Circuits Underlying Embryogenesis, Regeneration, and Cancer, Cell, 184(8): 1971-1989
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Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2021), Living things are not (20th Century) machines: updating mechanism metaphors in light of the modern science of machine behavior, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 650726
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Levin, M., Keijzer, F., Lyon, P., and Arend, D. (2021), Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1821): 20200458
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Lyon, P., Keijzer, F., Arendt, D., and Levin, M. (2021), Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1820): 20190750
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Pezzulo, G., Lapalme, J., Durant, F., and Levin, M. (2021), Bistability of Somatic Pattern Memories: Stochastic Outcomes in Bioelectric Circuits Underlying Regeneration, Philosophical Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 376(1821): 20190765
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Shah, D., Yang, B., Kriegman, S., Levin, M., Bongard, J., and Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2021), Shape changing robots: bioinspiration, simulation, and physical realization, Advanced Materials, 33(19): 2170150
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Srivastava, P., Kane, A., Harrison, C., and Levin, M. (2021), A Meta-Analysis of Bioelectric Data in Cancer, Embryogenesis, and Regeneration, Bioelectricity, 3(1): 42-67
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), How Do Living Systems Create Meaning?, Philosophies, 5(4): 36
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Why isn't sex optional? Stem-cell competition, loss of regenerative capacity, and cancer in metazoan evolution, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 13(1): 170-183
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Levin, M. (2020), How Groups of Cells Cooperate to Build Organs and Organisms, The Scientist, 34(9): 38-45
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Does evolution have a target morphology?, Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, 4(1): 57-76
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Kuchling, F., Friston, K., Georgiev, G., and Levin, M. (2020), Integrating Variational Approaches to Pattern Formation into a Deeper Physics: Reply to comments on "Morphogenesis as Bayesian Inference: A Variational Approach to Pattern Formation and Manipulation in Complex Biological Systems", Physics of Life Reviews, 33: 125-128
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Hoel, E., and Levin, M. (2020), Emergence of Informative Higher Scales in Biological Systems: a computational toolkit for optimal prediction and control, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 13(1): 108-118
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Levin, M., Bongard, J., and Lunshof, J. E. (2020), Applications and ethics of computer-designed organisms, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 21(11): 655-656
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Levin, M. (2020), Opinion: Use the Pandemic to Expand the Lab to the Home, The Scientist
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Gawne, R., McKenna, K., and Levin, M. (2020), Competitive and Coordinative Interactions between Body Parts Produce Adaptive Developmental Outcomes, BioEssays, 42(8): 1900245
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Kuchling, F., Friston, K., Georgiev, G., and Levin, M. (2020), Morphogenesis as Bayesian Inference: a Variational Approach to Pattern Formation and Control in Complex Biological Systems, Physics of Life Reviews, 33: 88-108
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Scale-Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking, BioEssays, 42(8): 1900228
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Cervera, J., Levin, M., and Mafe, S. (2020), Bioelectrical Coupling of Single-Cell States in Multicellular Systems, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(9): 3234-3241
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Levin, M. (2020), Revisiting Burr and Northrop's 'The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life', Biological Theory, 15: 83-90
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2020), Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny?, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 13(1): 27-38
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Davison, A., McDowell, G. S., Holden, J. M., Johnson, H. F., Wade, C. M., Chiba, S., Jackson, D. J., Levin, M., and Blaxter, M. L. (2020), Formin, an opinion, Development, 147: dev187427
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Tung, A., and Levin, M. (2020), Extra-genomic instructive influences in morphogenesis: A review of external signals that regulate growth and form, Developmental Biology, 461(1): 1-12
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Healy, D., Faber, C., Lapalme, J., and Levin, M. (2020), Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: a bioelectric mechanism?, Bioelectricity, 2(1): 7-13
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Levin, M. (2020), The Biophysics of Regenerative Repair Suggests New Perspectives on Biological Causation, BioEssays, 42(2): 1900146
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Fields, C., Bischof, J., and Levin, M. (2020), Morphological Coordination: A Common Ancestral Function Unifying Neural and Non-Neural Signaling, Physiology, 35: 16-30
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Levin, M., Selberg, J., and Rolandi, M. (2019), Endogenous Bioelectrics in Development, Cancer, and Regeneration: Drugs and Bioelectronic Devices as Electroceuticals for Regenerative Medicine, iScience, 22: 519-533
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Finkelstein J., McLaughlin K., Levin M. (2019), Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis, The Scientist, December 2019
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Levin, M. (2019), The Computational Boundary of a 'Self': Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2688
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Levin, S., and Levin, M. (2019), Managing Ideas, People, and Projects: Organizational Tools and Strategies for Researchers, iScience, 20: 278-291
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Payne, S. L., Levin, M., and Oudin, M. J. (2019), Bioelectric control of metastasis in solid tumors, Bioelectricity, 1(3): 114-130
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2019), Somatic Multicellularity as a Satisficing Solution to the Prediction-Error Minimization Problem, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 12(1): 119-132
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Whited, J., and Levin, M. (2019), Bioelectrical controls of morphogenesis: from ancient mechanisms of cell coordination to biomedical opportunities, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 57: 61-69
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Levin, M., and Martinez-Arias, A. (2019), Reverse-engineering growth and form in Heidelberg, Development, 146(14): dev177261
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Cervera, C., Pai, V. P., Levin, M., and Mafe, S. (2019), From non-excitable single-cell to multicellular bioelectrical states supported by ion channels and gap junction proteins: electrical potentials as distributed controllers, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 149: 39-53
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Bonzanni, M., Rouleau, N., Levin, M., and Kaplan, D. (2019), On the generalization of habituation: how discrete biological systems respond to repetitive stimuli, BioEssays, 41(7): 1900028
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Manicka, S., and Levin, M. (2019), The Cognitive Lens: a primer on conceptual tools for analysing information processing in developmental and regenerative morphogenesis, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1774): 20180369
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Bizzari, M., Brash, D., Briscoe, J., Grieneisen, V., Stern, C. D., and Levin, M. (2019), A Call for a Better Understanding of Causation in Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 20(5): 261-262
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Levin, M., Pietak, A., and Bischof, J. (2019), Planarian Regeneration as a Model of Anatomical Homeostasis: Recent Progress in Biophysical and Computational Approaches, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 87: 125-144
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Berard, A., Levin, M., Sadler, T., Healy, D. (2019), Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use During Pregnancy and Major Malformations: The Importance of Serotonin for Embryonic Development and the Effect of Serotonin Inhibition on the Occurrence of Malformations, Bioelectricity, 1(1): 18-29
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Kamm, R. D., Bashir, R., Arora, N., Dar, R. D., Gilette, M. U., Griffith, L. G., Kemp, M. L., Kinlaw, K., Levin, M., Martin, A. C., McDevitt, T. C., Nerem, R. M., Powers, M. J., Saif, T. A., Sharpe, J., Takayama, S., Takeuchi, S., Weiss, R., Ye, K., Yevick, H. G., and Zaman, M. H. (2018), Perspective: the promise of multi-cellular engineered living systems, APL Bioengineering, 2(4): 040901
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Pezzulo, G., and Levin, M. (2018), Embodying Markov blankets. Comment on 'Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation' by Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead et al., Physics of Life Reviews, 24: 32-36
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Cervera, J., Pietak, A., Levin, M., and Mafe, S. (2018), Bioelectrical coupling in multicellular domains regulated by gap junctions: a conceptual approach, Bioelectrochemistry, 123: 45-61
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Pietak, A., and Levin, M. (2018), Bioelectrical control of positional information in development and regeneration: a review of conceptual and computational advances, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 137: 52-68
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Mathews, J., and Levin, M. (2018), The Body Electric 2.0: Recent Advances in Developmental Bioelectricity for Regenerative and Synthetic Bioengineering, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 52: 134-144
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Monsoro-Burq, A.H., and Levin, M. (2018), Avian models and the study of invariant asymmetry: how the chicken and the egg taught us to tell right from left, International Journal of Developmental Biology, 62(1-3): 63-77
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Are planaria individuals? What regenerative biology is telling us about the nature of multicellularity, Evolutionary Biology, 45(3): 237-247
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Levin, M., and Martyniuk, C. J. (2018), The bioelectric code: An ancient computational medium for dynamic control of growth and form, BioSystems, 164: 76-93
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Herrera-Rincon, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Booting up the organism during development: pre-behavioral functions of the vertebrate brain in guiding body morphogenesis, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 11(1): e1433440
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Vallverdu, J., Castro, O., Mayne, R., Talanov, M., Levin, M., Baluška, F., Gunji, Y., Dussutour, A., Zenil, H., and Adamatzky, A. (2018), Slime mould: the fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition, BioSystems, 165: 57-70
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Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2018), Multiscale Memory And Bioelectric Error Correction In The Cytoplasm-Cytoskeleton-Membrane System, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 10(2): e1410
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Tuszynski, J., Tilli, T. M., and Levin, M. (2017), Ion channel and neurotransmitter modulators as electroceutical approaches to the control of cancer, Current Pharmaceutical Design, 23(32): 4827-4841
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McLaughlin, K. A., and Levin, M. (2017), Bioelectric Signaling in Regeneration: Mechanisms of Ionic Controls of Growth and Form, Developmental Biology, 433(2): 177-189
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Adams, D. S., Tseng, A-S., and Levin, M. (2017), Using optogenetics in vivo to stimulate regeneration, in K. Appasani (Ed.), Optogenetics: From Neuronal Function to Mapping and Disease Biology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, p. 66-76

Mathews, J., and Levin, M. (2017), Gap Junctional Signaling in Pattern Regulation: physiological network connectivity instructs growth and form, Developmental Neurobiology, 77(5): 643-673
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Levin, M., Pezzulo, G., and Finkelstein, J. M. (2017), Endogenous Bioelectric Signaling Networks: Exploiting Voltage Gradients for Control of Growth and Form, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 19: 353-387
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Blackiston, D. J., and Levin, M. (2017), Reversals of bodies, brains, and behavior: quantitative analysis of laterality and its disturbance in model species, in L. J. Rogers and G. Vallortigara (Eds.), Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species, "Neuromethods", W. Walz (Ed.), 122: 667-694
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Lobo, D., and Levin, M. (2017), Computing a worm: reverse-engineering planarian regeneration, in Adamatzky, A. (Ed), Advances in Unconventional Computing. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 23, Springer: Cham, pp. 637-654

Levin, M., and Adams, D. S. (2016), Ahead of the Curve: Hidden Breakthroughs in the Biosciences, Vol. 1, IOP Publishing: Bristol, UK

Levin, M., Klar, A. J. S., and Ramsdell, A. (2016), Introduction to provocative questions in Left-Right asymmetry, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371(1710): 20150399
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McDowell, G., Rajadurai, S., and Levin, M. (2016), From cytoskeletal dynamics to organ asymmetry: a nonlinear, regulative pathway underlies left-right patterning, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<, 371(1710): 20150409
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Pezzulo, G., and Levin, M. (2016), Top-down models in biology: explanation and control of complex living systems above the molecular level, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13(124): 20160555
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Herrera-Rincon, C., Guay, J., and Levin, M. (2016), Bioelectrical coordination of cell activity toward anatomical target states: an engineering perspective on regeneration, Chapter 4 in D. Gardiner (Ed.), Regenerative Engineering and Developmental Biology: Principles and Applications, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, p. 55-112
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Neuhof, M., Levin, M., and Rechavi, O. (2016), Vertically and horizontally-transmitted memories - the fading boundaries between regeneration and inheritance in planaria, Biology Open, 5(9): 1177-1188
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Baluška, F., and Levin, M. (2016), On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems, Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 902
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Sullivan, K. G., Emmons-Bell, M., and Levin, M. (2016), Physiological Inputs Regulate Species-Specific Anatomy During Embryogenesis And Regeneration, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 9(4): e1192733
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Edelstein, L., Fuxe, K., Levin, M., Popescu, B., and Smythies, J. (2016), Telocytes in their context with other intercellular communication agents, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 55: 9-13
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Durant, F., Lobo, D., Hammelman, J., and Levin, M. (2016), Physiological controls of large-scale patterning in planarian regeneration: a molecular and computational perspective on growth and form, Regeneration, 3(2): 78-102
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Pezzulo, G., and Levin, M. (2015), Re-membering the body: applications of computational neuroscience to the top-down control of regeneration of limbs and other complex organs, Integrative Biology, 7(12): 1487-1517
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Bessonov, N., Levin, M., Morozova, N., Reinberg, N., Tosenberger, A., and Volpert, V. (2015), Target morphology and cell memory: a model of regenerative pattern formation, Neural Regeneration Research, 10(12): 1901-1905
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Blackiston, D. J., Shomrat, T., and Levin, M. (2015), The Stability of Memories During Brain Remodeling: a Perspective, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 8(5): e1073424
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Levin, M. (2015), Gap junctions: versatile mediators of long-range developmental signals, The Node
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Levin, M. (2015), Nerves read the electrical topography of their microenvironment in making growth decisions, The Node
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Friston, K., Levin, M., Sengupta, B., and Pezzulo, G. (2015), Knowing one's place: a free energy approach to pattern regulation, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12(105): 20141383
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Levin, M. (2014), Molecular bioelectricity: how endogenous voltage potentials control cell behavior and instruct pattern regulation in vivo, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 25(24): 3835-3850
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Zhu, F., Skommer, J., Huang, Y., Akagi, J., Adams, D. S., Levin, M., Hall, C. J., Crosier, P. S., and Wlodkowic, D. (2014), Fishing on chips: up-and-coming technological advances in analysis of zebrafish and Xenopus embryos, Cytometry A, 85A(11): 921-932
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Mustard, J., and Levin, M. (2014), Bioelectrical mechanisms for programming growth and form: taming physiological networks for soft body robotics, Soft Robotics, 1(3): 169-191
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Hernandez-Diaz, S., and Levin, M. (2014), Alteration of bioelectrically-controlled processes in the embryo: a teratogenic mechanism for anticonvulsants, Reproductive Toxicology, 47: 111-114
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Lobikin, M., and Levin, M. (2014), Endogenous bioelectric cues as morphogenetic signals in vivo, Chapter 15 in D. Fels, M. Cifra, and F. Scholkmann (Eds), Fields of the Cell, Research Signpost: Kerala, India, pp. 283-302
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Pai, V., and Levin, M. (2014), Bioelectric controls of stem cell function, Chapter 5 in F. Calegari and C. Waskow (Eds.), Stem Cells: From Basic Research to Therapy, Volume 1, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, pp. 106-148
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Levin, M. (2014), Endogenous bioelectrical networks store non-genetic patterning information during development and regeneration, Journal of Physiology, 592(11): 2295-2305
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Lobo, D., Solano, M., Bubenik, G. A., and Levin, M. (2014), A linear-encoding model explains the variability of the target morphology in regeneration, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 11(92): 20130918
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Levin, M. (2013), Remembrance of Brains Past, The Node
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Vandenberg, L. N., Lemire, J. M, and Levin, M. (2013), It's Never too Early to get it Right: A Conserved Role for the Cytoskeleton in Left-Right Asymmetry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 6(6): e27155
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Chernet, B., and Levin, M. (2013), Endogenous voltage potentials and the microenvironment: bioelectric signals that reveal, induce, and normalize cancer, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, S1: doi:10.4172/2324-9110.S1-002
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Levin, M. (2013), Reprogramming cells and tissue patterning via bioelectrical pathways: molecular mechanisms and biomedical opportunities, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 5(6): 657-676
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Vandenberg, L. N., and Levin, M. (2013), A unified model for left-right asymmetry? Comparison and synthesis of molecular models of laterality, Developmental Biology, 379(1): 1-15
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Adams, D. S., and Levin, M. (2013), Endogenous Voltage Gradients as Mediators of Cell-Cell Communication: Strategies for Investigating Bioelectrical Signals During Pattern Formation, Cell and Tissue Research, 352(1):95-122
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Tseng, A-S., and Levin, M. (2013), Cracking the bioelectric code: probing endogenous ionic controls of pattern formation, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 6(1): e22595
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Tseng, A.-S., and Levin, M. (2012), Transducing bioelectrical signals into epigenetic pathways during tadpole tail regeneration, Anatomical Record, 295(10): 1541-1551
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Levin, M. (2012), Morphogenetic fields in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer: non-local control of complex patterning, BioSystems, 109(3): 243-261
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Lobo, D., Beane, W., and Levin, M. (2012), Modeling planarian regeneration: a primer for reverse-engineering the worm, PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4): e1002481
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Levin, M., and Stevenson, C. (2012), Regulation of Cell Behavior and Tissue Patterning by Bioelectrical Signals: challenges and opportunities for biomedical engineering, Annual Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 14: 295-323
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Levin, M. (2012), Molecular bioelectricity in developmental biology: new tools and recent discoveries. BioEssays, 34(3): 205-217
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Levin, M. (2011), Endogenous Bioelectric Signals as Morphogenetic Controls of Development, Regeneration, and Neoplasm, in C. Pullar (Ed.), The Physiology of Bioelectricity in Development, Tissue Regeneration, and Cancer, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, pp. 39-89
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Levin, M. (2011), The wisdom of the body: future techniques and approaches to morphogenetic fields in regenerative medicine, developmental biology, and cancer, Regenerative Medicine, 6(6): 667-673
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Vandenberg, L. N., and Levin, M. (2010), Far from solved: a perspective on what we know about early mechanisms of left-right asymmetry, Developmental Dynamics, 239(12): 3131-3146
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Aw, S., and Levin, M. (2009), Is left-right asymmetry a form of planar cell polarity? Development, 136(3): 355-366
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Vandenberg, L., and Levin, M. (2009), Perspectives and open problems in the early phases of left-right patterning, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 20(4): 456-463
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Levin, M. (2009), Bioelectric mechanisms in regeneration: Unique aspects and future perspectives,, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 20(5): 543-556
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Levin, M. (2009), Errors of Geometry: regeneration in a broader perspective, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 20(6): 643-645
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Levin, M. (2009), Regeneration: recent advances, major puzzles, and biomedical opportunities, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 20(5): 515-516
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Sundelacruz, S., Levin, M., and Kaplan, D. L. (2009), Role of membrane potential in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation, Stem Cell Reviews, 5(3): 231-246
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Blackiston, D. J., McLaughlin, K., and Levin, M. (2009), Bioelectric controls of cell proliferation: ion channels, membrane voltage, and the cell cycle, Cell Cycle, 8(21): 3527-3536
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Oviedo, N., and Levin, M. (2008), The planarian regeneration model as a context for the study of drug effects and mechanisms, in R. B. Raffa & S.M. Rawls (Eds.), Planaria: A Model for Drug Action and Abuse, RG Landes Co.: Austin, pp. 95-104

Nicolas, C.L., Abramson, C.I., and Levin, M. (2008), Analysis of behavior in the planarian model, in R. B. Raffa & S. M. Rawls (Eds.), Planaria: A Model for Drug Action and Abuse, RG Landes Co.: Austin, pp. 83-94

Aw, S., and Levin, M. (2008), What's Left in Asymmetry? Developmental Dynamics, 237(12): 3453-3464
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Oviedo, N., Nicolas, C. L., Adams, D. S., and Levin, M. (2008),Planarians: a versatile and powerful model system for molecular studies of regeneration, adult stem cell regulation, aging, and behavior, in Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Volume 1, Cold Spring Harbor Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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Tseng, A-S., and Levin, M. (2008), Tail regeneration in Xenopus laevis as a model for understanding tissue repair, Journal of Dental Research, 87(9): 806-816
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Levin, M., and Palmer, R. (2007), Left-right patterning from the inside out: widespread evidence for intracellular control, BioEssays, 29(3): 271-287
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Levin, M. (2007), Gap junctional communication in morphogenesis, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 94(1-2): 186-206
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Levin, M. (2007), Large-Scale Biophysics: Ion Flows and Regeneration, Trends in Cell Biology, 17(6): 261-270
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Ingber, D., and Levin, M. (2007), What lies at the interface of regenerative medicine and developmental biology? Development, 134(14): 2541-2547
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Oviedo, N., and Levin, M. (2007), Gap junctions provide new links in left-right patterning, Cell, 129(4): 645-647
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Levin, M., Buznikov, G. A., and Lauder, J. M. (2006), Of Minds and Embryos: Left-Right Asymmetry and the Serotonergic Controls of Pre-Neural Morphogenesis, Developmental Neuroscience, 28(3): 171-185
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Levin, M. (2006), Is the Early Left-Right Axis like a Plant, a Kidney, or a Neuron? The Integration of Physiological Signals in Left-Right Asymmetry, Birth Defects Research (Part C), 78(3): 191-223
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Levin, M. (2005), Left-right asymmetry in embryonic development: a comprehensive review, Mechanisms of Development, 122(1): 3-25
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Levin, M. (2004), The embryonic origins of left-right asymmetry, Critical Reviews in Oral Biology and Medicine, 15(4): 197-206
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Adams, D. S., and Levin, M. (2004), Early Patterning of the Left/Right Axis, in C. D. Stern (Ed.), Gastrulation: from cells to embryo, Cold Spring Harbor: New York, pp. 403-417
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Levin, M. (2003), Bioelectromagnetics in morphogenesis, Bioelectromagnetics, 24(5): 295-315
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Levin, M. (2003), Motor protein control of ion flux is an early step in embryonic left-right asymmetry, BioEssays, 25(10): 1002-1010
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Levin, M. (2002), Isolation and community: A review of the role of gap-junctional communication in embryonic patterning, Journal of Membrane Biology, 185(3): 177-192
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Mercola, M., and Levin, M. (2001), Left-Right asymmetry determination in vertebrates. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 17: 779-805
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Levin, M. (2001), Asymmetry of Body and Brain: Embryological and Twin Studies, in N. Smelser and P. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier: Oxford, UK, pp. 853-859
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Levin, M. (1999), Twinning and embryonic left-right asymmetry, Laterality, 4(3): 197-208
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Levin, M. (1999), Left-right asymmetry in animal embryogenesis, in G. Palyi, C. Zucchi, and L. Caglioti (Eds.), Advances in Biochirality, ch. 12, pp. 137-152, Elsevier Science LTD: Oxford, UK
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Levin, M. (1999), Endogenous electromagnetic fields and radiations in regeneration, development, and neoplasm, Proceedings of the First World Congress on the Effects of Electricity and Magnetism in the Natural World, Madeira, Portugal

Levin, M. (1998), Left-Right asymmetry and the chick embryo, Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 9(1): 67-76
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Levin, M., and Nascone, N. (1997), Two molecular models of initial left-right asymmetry generation, Medical Hypotheses, 49(5): 429-435
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Levin, M. (1997), Left-right asymmetry in vertebrate embryogenesis, BioEssays, 19(4): 287-296
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Levin, M. (1995), Use of Genetic Algorithms to Solve Biomedical Problems, M.D. Computing, 12(3): 193-198
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Levin, M. (1993), Current and potential applications of bioelectromagnetics in medicine, Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal, 4(1): 77-87
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