Articles by Justin Jackson
Medical Xpress / GD2 CAR T treatment induces durable remissions in high-risk neuroblastoma
From Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome comes a report that a third-generation CAR T cell therapy targeting GD2, designated GD2–CART01, induced durable remissions and long-term survival in children with high-risk metastatic, ...
Medical Xpress / Guiding epidemic interventions through a fog of noisy data
Imperial College London's Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology reports a model-predictive control approach that times non-pharmaceutical interventions from noisy real-time case data, generally achieving better control ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds no rise in heart attacks around daylight savings time
Duke Clinical Research Institute-led research finds that changing clocks and adjusting to daylight savings time showed no significant association with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, or heart attack) incidence or in-hospital ...
Medical Xpress / A pathological partnership between Salmonella and yeast in the gut
University of Illinois Chicago-led researchers have found that a common gut yeast, Candida albicans, can help Salmonella Typhimurium take hold in the intestine and spread through the body. When interacting, a Salmonella protein ...
Medical Xpress / Phase I trial finds topical PXS-6302 generally well tolerated in established skin scars
University of Western Australia's Burn Injury Research Unit with the Fiona Wood Foundation reports that topical pan-lysyl oxidase inhibition with PXS-6302 was generally well tolerated over three months and altered extracellular ...
Medical Xpress / RSV vaccine linked to fewer cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in adults over 60
A multi-institutional collaboration led by the Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials at Copenhagen University Hospital-Herlev and Gentofte, University of Copenhagen, reports that RSVpreF vaccination ...
Medical Xpress / Cannabis use may harm reproductive health and reduce healthy embryos in IVF
CReATe Fertility Center in Toronto reports that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) reaches the ovarian follicle, aligns with higher oocyte maturation, and associates with lower embryo euploid rates in IVF, with in vitro exposure ...
Phys.org / New Homo naledi evidence supports intentional burial practices
Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, have published their most extensive evidence yet of deliberate burial by Homo naledi, ...
Medical Xpress / Specialized macrophages on adipose nerves curb age-related inflammation in mice
Yale School of Medicine-led research reports that nerve-associated macrophages help maintain healthy fat over a lifespan and curb age-related inflammation.
Medical Xpress / Estrogen receptor loss in kidney cells may trigger preeclampsia
University of Florence–led investigators report that estrogen-regulated renal progenitor cells shape pregnancy adaptation in mice with failure of estrogen receptor alpha signaling precipitating preeclampsia, maternal kidney ...
Medical Xpress / Rapamycin linked to DNA damage resilience in aging human immune cells
University of Oxford-led research finds low-dose rapamycin functions as a genomic protector in aging human immune cells, lowering DNA damage.
Medical Xpress / Human brains explore more to avoid losses than to seek gains
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science traced a neural mechanism that explains why humans explore more aggressively when avoiding losses than when pursuing gains. Their work reveals how neuronal firing and noise ...
Medical Xpress / Online testing uncovers a common multiple sclerosis subtype with hidden cognitive deficits
King's College London and Imperial College London, in collaboration with the UK MS Register, report a prevalent multiple sclerosis (MS) subtype marked by significant cognitive deficits with minimal motor impairment, a form ...
Medical Xpress / Prolonged use of injectable contraceptive tied to brain tumor diagnoses
From Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic, investigators report that depot medroxyprogesterone acetate use was associated with a higher relative risk of meningioma brain tumor diagnosis ...
Medical Xpress / SeeMe detects hidden signs of consciousness in brain injury patients
SeeMe, a computer vision tool tested by Stony Brook University researchers, was able to detect low-amplitude, voluntary facial movements in comatose acute brain injury patients days before clinicians could identify overt ...
