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SequenceME: first of a kind genetic study December 16, 2024 A groundbreaking partnership has launched today. The partners are working together to secure funding for a study which will analyse the entire genetic code of up to 17,000 people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in a bid to uncover...

Jennie Jacques speaks with @Chris Ponting on DecodeME and the recent Biobank preprint Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity

Abstract Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME; sometimes referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome) is a relatively common and female-biased disease of unknown pathogenesis that profoundly decreases patients' health-related quality-of-life. ME diagnosis is hindered by the absence of robustly-defined and...

Pre-print Free fulltext: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3164397/v1 Comparison of T-cell Receptor Diversity of people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis versus controls Joshua J Dibble1 Ben Ferneyhough2 Matthew Roddis2 Sam Millington2 Michael D Fischer2 Nick J Parkinson2 Chris P...

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This thread was split from Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) News I thought we could not conclude autoimmunity is likely out of the picture as long as we dont know how to target long lived plasma cells? I mean b-cells dont really matter at that point if im not mistanken, as the autoimmune plasma...

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#MEAction UK and #MEAction Scotland have created a film for #MillionsMissing this year. Really grateful to be able to include expert testimony from Professor Chris Ponting and Dr Nina Muirhead, and for the many video submissions from people with ME. It was both fun, challenging and deeply...

https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research/postgraduate-training/phd-programme/research-projects The M.E. project is one of several advertised on this page. Mentions the GWAS study....

Prof @Chris Ponting made a cracking seven-minute speech at the Glasgow millions missing event, captured here It really is worth a listen. He talked about a range of things including progress in science, that ME scientists are listening to legitimate questions and concerns about science and...

New blog at ME/CFS Research Review Guest blog by Professor Chris Ponting and colleagues. Summary A new analysis using data from UK Biobank indicates that one version of a particular gene increases the risk of ME/CFS in women. The gene codes for a transporter protein in the mitochondrial...

Guest blog by Professor Chris Ponting and colleagues at ME/CFS Research Review UK Biobank - a national biobank different from the ME/CFS biobank - has data from around 500,000 individuals, including both healthy people and those with one or more of the many different diseases in the UK...

Full blog A team led by Edinburgh University’s Professor Chris Ponting has won funding for a PhD student who would follow up and expand on remarkable recent findings made at Stanford University where Dr Mark Davis may have pinpointed a major issue in the immune system in ME/CFS. Last year...

New biomedical research PhD launched in Scotland https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/new-biomedical-research-phd-launched-in-scotland/ Action for M.E. and the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist’s Office are delighted to announce the recipient of our jointly funded PhD studentship in...

Date: May 3, 2018 URL: https://www.actionforme.org.uk/uploads/images/2018/05/chris-ponting-interview-may-2018.pdf Q&A with Prof Chris Ponting --------------------------- Chair of Medical Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh and Deputy Chair, UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative (CMRC), What...