Masataka Kasai

Worldmindedness: Taking Off the Blinders (2008)

Merry M. Merryfield, Joe Tin-Yau, Sum Cho Po, Masataka Kasai

A dynamic web of global interconnectedness has expanded the engagement and political efficacy of citizens in the 21st century. The acceleration of knowledge creation, the dynamics of electronic...

Global education in practice: a case study of one Japanese high school (2007)

Kasai, Masataka

This study aims at answering several questions concerning the practice of global education in a Japanese high school, which I refer to as Fuji School. The research reveals how teachers at this high...

A subcutaneously injected UV-inactivated SARS coronavirus vaccine elicits systemic humoral immunity in mice (2004)

Takasuka, Naomi, Fujii, Hideki, Takahashi, Yoshimasa, Kasai, Masataka, Morikawa, Shigeru, Itamura, Shigeyuki, ...

The recent emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV. It spread rapidly to many countries and developing a SARS vaccine is now urgently...

Recombination hotspot associated factors specifically recognize novel target sequences at the site of interchromosomal rearrangements in T-ALL patients with t(8;14)(q24;q11) and t(1;14)(p32;q11) (1994)

Kasai, Masataka, Aokl, Katsunori, Matsuo, Yoshinobu, Minowada, Jun, Maziarz, Richard T., Strominger, Jack L.

A DNA binding protein was identified which binds to two novel target-like sequences: (I) at the 5′ flanking site of the breakpoint junction of chromosome 8 in a patient with T-acute lymphoblastlc...

Dnmt3a binds deacetylases and is recruited by a sequence-specific repressor to silence transcription

Fuks, François, Burgers, Wendy A., Godin, Nadia, Kasai, Masataka, Kouzarides, Tony

The Dnmt3a DNA methyltransferase is essential for mammalian development and is responsible for the generation of genomic methylation patterns, which lead to transcriptional silencing. Here, we show...

Dnmt3a binds deacetylases and is recruited by a sequence-specific repressor to silence transcription

Fuks, François, Burgers, Wendy A., Godin, Nadia, Kasai, Masataka, Kouzarides, Tony

The Dnmt3a DNA methyltransferase is essential for mammalian development and is responsible for the generation of genomic methylation patterns, which lead to transcriptional silencing. Here, we show...

Global education in practice: a case study of one Japanese high school

Kasai, Masataka

This study aims at answering several questions concerning the practice of global education in a Japanese high school, which I refer to as Fuji School. The research reveals how teachers at this high...