"What" is a lot easier to answer than "why". They produced "simplified blood" of each patient made up of PBMCs resuspended in plasma, 200 cells...
This is the key issue, particularly given the frequent claim that this shows ME/CFS is not "all in the mind" (I really dislike that phrase because...
In the discussion, the authors say "According to our experimental results, ME/CFS blood cells display a unique characteristic in the impedance...
Have had a quick read through The paper and thought I'd place here before I went to bed. They do claim that the finding is unique to ME/CFS. So...
Both groups use the same method, the Seahorse analyser. as Lisa says, the findings are consistent because the most obvious exclamation for the...
Blog preview Something in the blood [IMG] It is remarkable that four independent groups have now found that a factor in the blood can affect cell...
EDIT: SUMMARY OF LATEST VERSION OF BLOG POSTED INSTEAD Moderator's note: This post and relevant replies have been copied from this point,...
"Something in the blood" Moderator note: Simon's summary of what we know so far about the "something in our blood" has been relocated to this...
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I have been in touch with Dr Kathy Rowe, the sole author of the study, who was really helpful in providing additional information. Several points...
Unfortunately, my migraines are getting ever worse and I probably won't be able to return to this thread after this post. Yes, the distinction...
The Brown, Bell and Jason paper from 2012 is important in relation to the new study as it aims to see if patients who said they were recovered...
Could you tell me where I could find a clip where he says this, please? Thanks
Commentary [Relatively good] long term outcomes for young people with ME/CFS Katherine S Rowe, 2019 apologies that I haven't taken part in...
Brief commentary An interesting approach to studying "neuroinflammation“ yields only one robust finding. Jarred Younger is looking for evidence...
I read this for another purpose and thought I'd post my comments here. It makes sense to explore the value of the huge insurance claims...
Here is the key quote from Michael Sharpe, and he has it wrong: The good thing about a prospective study, the design here, is that you look what...
The instants rate of 1.6 cases per thousand = 0 .16% new cases per year. That is implausibly hi given that prevalence (two cases) is around 0.2%....
Perfectly put. I am concerned about this claim: it would explain how they get such a small P value from the tiny sample, but that P value does not...
This looks very interesting, but I am eager to see the full text. The P values are astonishing low for such a small sample size (n = 9). For...
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