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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 / 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.

Nov 4, 2025
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.

Nov 3, 2025
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 ...

Nov 3, 2025
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 ...

Nov 3, 2025
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 ...

Oct 31, 2025
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 ...

Oct 29, 2025
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.

Oct 28, 2025
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.

Oct 28, 2025
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 ...

Oct 27, 2025
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 ...

Oct 27, 2025
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 ...

Oct 27, 2025
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 ...

Oct 25, 2025
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 ...

Oct 24, 2025
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 ...

Oct 23, 2025
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 ...

Oct 22, 2025