Articles by Justin Jackson
Medical Xpress / Magnetized approach to kidney stone retrieval outperforms standard methods in preclinical study
Stanford University has unveiled a ureteroscopy-compatible device that magnetizes and retrieves kidney stone fragments with a wire, with performance in a pig model beating traditional removal techniques.
Medical Xpress / Prenatal exposure to specific fine particles linked to autism risk
A multi-institutional team including Health Canada researchers has found that prenatal air exposure to specific particulate matter components and early-life ozone is associated with autism spectrum disorder in Ontario children.
Medical Xpress / Closed-loop insulin system improves glucose control during pregnancy, clinical trial finds
A collaborative effort across 14 clinical centers in Canada and Australia reports that pregnant women with type 1 diabetes using a closed-loop insulin system spent more time in the pregnancy-specific glucose range than those ...
Phys.org / Nice tone! What an exclamation point does for a text
Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, enthusiasm, power, and analytical ...
Medical Xpress / Restoring youthful microvascular function to aging skin
The New York University School of Medicine and collaborators found that capillary-associated macrophages in skin decline with age, weakening microvascular repair and reducing perfusion in mice, with skin restoration possible ...
Medical Xpress / Swedish study links temperature extremes to higher death risk in heart failure
A multi-institution research effort led by Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment reports that short-term exposure to both low and high ambient temperatures was ...
Medical Xpress / Head trauma symptoms may linger longer for patients with certain risk factors
A multi-institutional investigation found several early presentation characteristics that were associated with symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury.
Medical Xpress / Fat breakdown in skin cells restarts hair growth in mice
National Taiwan University researchers, with collaborators in Taiwan and the US, report that adipocyte lipolysis activates epithelial hair follicle stem cells and drives hair regeneration via monounsaturated fatty acid signaling.
Medical Xpress / Potential cancer outcome differences among psoriasis biologics found
Copenhagen University Hospital–Herlev and Gentofte led a nationwide registry study that the authors claim shows a "pattern suggesting" a lower five-year risk of any first cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) with ustekinumab ...
Medical Xpress / Combined HIV vaccines can act in concert to achieve diverse antibody priming
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard report coordinated studies showing that several HIV germline-targeting immunogens can be delivered together ...
Medical Xpress / Localized IL-12 delivery reshapes CAR-T safety in solid tumors
An international collaboration of researchers, including Imperial College London and UCLA, has developed a collagen-binding interleukin 12 strategy that lets CAR-T cells treat prostate cancer in mice while curbing previously ...
Medical Xpress / Global survey reveals obesity hidden in normal BMI contributing to metabolic disorders
A multinational team of researchers has discovered that over 20% of adults with a normal BMI range experience levels of abdominal obesity that puts them at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, high total cholesterol, and ...
Phys.org / Early experiment at the dawn of dinosaur evolution discovered
Argentinian researchers have described a Carnian theropod with features previously thought to belong only to much later neotheropods, indicating greater early dinosaur diversity than expected as well as a possible climate-related ...
Phys.org / Ancient skeletons yield the first hormonal evidence of reproductive life
University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a way to identify pregnancy ...
Medical Xpress / A year of dieting with non-sugar sweeteners shows weight loss can stay lost
Researchers at Maastricht University and the University of Copenhagen report that incorporating sweeteners and sweetness enhancers within a healthy, sugar-reduced diet supported one-year weight loss maintenance and coincided ...