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Justin Jackson

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Justin has been covering science news as a host of This Week in Science (TWIS podcast) since 2004. The weekly program brings a slightly irreverent, yet fervently pro-science perspective to recent research across all scientific subjects. While he has previously worked in biotech research labs running fermentation experiments and in genomics labs running next-generation sequencers, Justin’s first love of science is in communicating the stories to a wider audience. Justin joins the Science X team

Articles by Justin Jackson

Medical Xpress / Circadian disruption by night light linked to multiple cardiovascular outcomes

Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter night-time light exposure to elevated risks of five major cardiovascular diseases.

Jul 6, 2025
Phys.org / Chickadees recall places by simply looking from afar

Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in black-capped chickadees fire when the bird merely gazes at a distant location, revealing a unified ...

Jul 5, 2025
Medical Xpress / Mimicking the benefits of exercise with a single molecule

Capital Medical University, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reports that betaine, a molecule produced in the kidney and enhanced through sustained exercise, operates as a potent inhibitor of inflammatory ...

Jul 2, 2025
Medical Xpress / Obese mice live 26% longer with a single protein overexpression

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center scientists found that activating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) exclusively in the fat tissue of adult male mice prolonged lifespan under sustained high-fat diet feeding, ...

Jul 2, 2025
Medical Xpress / Neurons duped into delivering mitochondria to cancer cells found fueling tumor spread

University of South Alabama researchers report that neurons can transfer mitochondria directly to cancer cells, enhancing their metastatic potential.

Jul 1, 2025
Medical Xpress / Rerouted bile acid thwarts tumor spread in colorectal cancer mouse model

Research led by the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany has found that bile acid diversion in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) reduces colorectal tumor growth and ...

Jul 1, 2025
Phys.org / Switching on a silent gene revives tissue regeneration in mice

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant gene enables mice to regenerate ear tissue.

Jun 30, 2025
Medical Xpress / Neuroscientists remain steadfastly uncertain about how the brain encodes memory

Researchers from Monash University, in collaboration with the European Biostasis Foundation and Apex Neuroscience, have revealed that although most neuroscientists agree that long-term memories depend primarily on neuronal ...

Jun 30, 2025
Medical Xpress / AI model spots gastric cancer on routine CT scans with high accuracy, outperforming radiologists

A collaboration of leading Chinese research institutions has developed an artificial intelligence-based method called GRAPE, demonstrating high accuracy in detecting gastric cancer from routine noncontrast CT scans.

Jun 30, 2025
Phys.org / How night lizards survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) ...

Jun 28, 2025
Phys.org / Fossil fungi trapped in amber reveal ancient origin of parasitic zombie-ants

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and insects, suggesting that ...

Jun 27, 2025
Medical Xpress / A cure for type 1 diabetes? Beta cell replacement with zimislecel achieves insulin independence in early trial

In a clinical trial led by University of Toronto researchers, an allogeneic stem cell–derived islet therapy (zimislecel) restored insulin production and ended severe hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes within a year ...

Jun 25, 2025
Phys.org / Mice born of two dads reveal hidden details of mammalian reproduction

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have produced fertile adult mice from embryos constructed entirely with male genetic material. Mice carrying only paternal DNA developed into fertile adults following precision ...

Jun 25, 2025
Phys.org / Large yeast clusters generate natural circulatory flows through metabolic activity to bypass diffusion limits

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India's National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid flows powerful enough to ...

Jun 24, 2025
Medical Xpress / Surviving breast cancer tied to lower Alzheimer's risk: Radiation therapy may offer short-term protection

Research led by Samsung Medical Center finds breast cancer survivors exhibit an 8% lower risk of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) compared with cancer-free individuals, with radiation therapy potentially contributing to the reduced ...

Jun 24, 2025