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Science and technology editor @TheEconomist • Host of “Babbage” podcast • Author: The Water Book thewaterbook.org • alokjha@economist.com 📧

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Alok Jha’s Biography

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Alok Jha is a science correspondent at the Guardian. In addition to writing news and comment, he presents the Science Weekly podcast. A physics graduate from Imperial College London, he has been at the Guardian since the launch of the science supplement, Life, in 2003. He is also the author of The Doomsday Handbook: 50 Ways to the End of the World and How To Live Forever And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses for Science, both published by Quercus. You can find him on Twitter at @alokjha and his …

Alok Jha’s Journalist Portfolio

Bottlenose dolphins use names to identify companions

Bottlenose dolphins use names to identify companions

Bottlenose dolphins have distinct "names" that they use to identify individuals in their social group, accord…

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Science Weekly podcast: Britain invests in spaceplanes

Science Weekly podcast: Britain invests in spaceplanes

The Sabre engine is being developed by UK firm Reaction Engines and could herald a new era of space flight, o…

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Embryonic stem cells could help restore sight to blind

Embryonic stem cells could help restore sight to blind

Scientists have shown that light-sensitive retinal cells, grown in the lab from stem cells, can successfully …

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Research on animals in UK rises by 8% to exceed 4m procedures

Research on animals in UK rises by 8% to exceed 4m procedures

The number of scientific procedures carried out in Britain on animals rose by 8% in 2012, compared with the p…

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Science Weekly podcast: the synthetic biology revolution

Science Weekly podcast: the synthetic biology revolution

Synthetic biology is likely to have a profound impact on our future health, the environment and how scientist…

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Helicopter powered by man on bicycle wins $250,000 prize

Helicopter powered by man on bicycle wins $250,000 prize

Engineers at the University of Toronto have won a prize that has been unclaimed for 33 years by building the …

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Extracellular caspase-1: a critical inducer and a therapeutic target of lung injury in gut ischemia-reperfusion

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By Kouhei Ishikawa, Gaifeng Ma, Alok Jha Verified, Atsushi Murao, Ping Wang, Monowar Aziz
| Frontiers in Immunology
Abstract Caspase-1 is known to function intracellularly. However, whether caspase-1 can be released extracellularly and if so, the mechanisms of its release and action remain unknown. Here, we identify that cleaved caspase-1 (p20), which we named extracellular caspase-1 (eCasp-1), is released from immune cells in association with gasdermin D (GSDMD) pores formation.
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Diabetic Striatopathy in an Elderly Female With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes: A Case Report

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By Ujjwal Kumar Shah, Alok Jha Verified, Prabesh Panta
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Diabetic striatopathy (DS) is a rare neurological complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), frequently described in the literature using terms such as “hyperglycemic non-ketotic hemichorea/hemiballism,” “chorea/hemichorea associated with non-ketotic hyperglycemia,” “diabetic hemiballism-hemichorea,” and “chorea, hyperglycemia, basal ganglia syndrome.” Its estimated prevalence is approximately 1 in 100,000, with most reported cases from Asia and predominantly affecting elderly...
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DLL4+ neutrophils promote Notch1-mediated endothelial PANoptosis to exacerbate acute lung injury in sepsis

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By Hui Jin, Saoirse Holland, Alok Jha Verified, Gaifeng Ma
| The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Abstract Neutrophils play a critical role in sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI). Extracellular cold-inducible RNA-binding protein (eCIRP), a damage-associated molecular pattern, promotes neutrophil heterogeneity. While delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) expression has been studied in various cell populations, its expression in neutrophils and impact on inflammation remain unknown. Here, we discovered that eCIRP induces DLL4+ neutrophils.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Only to see what it was like, though. Not professionally.

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By email, generally.

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Adobe InCopy, Google Docs, DevonThink Pro Office, Twitter, Firefox, various Macs