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For those interested: On Thursday 26 October, 11.00-12.00 PDT, Dr Regina Nuzzo and Dr Kristin Sainani will give a free webinar on what a good clinical trial should look like. I expect it to have a relatively low treshold, followable for beginners as well. I got the invitation as a student of...

Highlights The off-label use of low-dose naltrexone (LDN) is a potential drug intervention for the management of post-COVID conditions. LDN has anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties which may benefit those with PASC where persistent inflammation is the causative pathway. LDN...

https://sciedandmisinfo.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25316/files/media/file/science_education_in_an_age_of_misinformation.pdf As an outsider (a non-scientist) I found this report topical in the age of science misinformation. Highlights common errors in research.

ME Action doesn't let me copy the text, so here is the link with the details: https://www.meaction.net/2021/10/19/stanford-study-enrolling-now/ In short: It's Ron Davis's lab, they are looking for severely ill, mostly bed-bound people from the US. What is needed: fecal swab sent by mail +...

FRONTIERS in BIOLOGY: Progress and challenges for a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) diagnostic Nov 11, 2020 (Wed) | 4:00 PM -5:00 PM via Zoom : Stanford, CA Department: Biochemistry Contact: Maria | - | marilen at stanford dot edu Presenter(s): Ron Davis Stanford...

Link here https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/an-announcement-from-ron-davis-phd.81243/ The ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford is pleased to announce the 4th Annual ME/CFS Working Group Meeting on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS. However, Unfortunately, the Community Day at...

Couldn’t find the abstract.

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/21/researchers-develop-portable-ammonia-detector/ Stanford researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector I wonder how much it costs and is there anything else like it on the market

This paper on Alzheimer’s is interesting because Mark Davis (one of the authors) and team are using similar techniques on ME patients to look for targets for T-Cell expansion. For Alzheimer's they found TCR's responding to two separate Epstein–Barr virus antigens in CSF...

Mike Snyder is a pioneer and I thought he gave the standout talk at Stanford this year. Stanford symposium: the potential of smartphones to better understand diseases, including ME/CFS “We think smartphones will be the most important health tool in future”, said Dr Michael Snyder at the recent...

https://www.meaction.net/2019/09/21/meaction-advocates-will-speak-at-stanford-medx-conference-this-weekend/?mc_cid=d8cd069995&mc_eid=c1fdea04b1 eta: 10.30 pm GMT eta2:

The Stanford Daily: Stanford Medicine professor fired for violating University rules of conduct https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/06/03/stanford-medicine-professor-fired-for-violating-university-rules-of-conduct/ by Elena Shao — June 3, 2019 Jose Montoya, previously a professor at the...

New York Times article about Stanford research published in Nature and led by Mike Snyder whose team is also helping Ron Davis with multiomics. This study was a very long longitudinal study to capture changes in the body over time, before diseases were diagnosed. Some changes led to early...

By Open Medicine Foundation full article here: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/state/california/article229756099.html [have looked at the link but can't find the published paper?] eta: link now works this one takes you to where it's listed...

I verified with Stanford that it was ok to share with other patients. This Montoya study is on exercise, the human microbiome and ME/CFS, and includes a bicycle exercise tolerance test. ---- Over the past year, there has been growing interest in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue...

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that the brains of patients with ME display abnormalities in the white matter within the right hemisphere. It is crucial to further the research involved with these findings as they may lead to more definitive diagnoses of ME. Who: Dr. Montoya...

This thread is for discussion of Michael Sikora's presentation at the Stanford Community Symposium 2018, focusing on the T cell work of the Mark Davis team. The talk starts at approximately 5:06:00

Scopeblog Stanford: Stanford immunologist pushes field to shift its research focus from mice to humans For the last several years, Stanford immunologist Mark Davis, PhD, has been pushing the immunology field to steer research away from a reliance on mice and toward humans. He recently talked...

This thread has been split from the main Stanford Community Symposium 2018 thread. Interesting presentation on metabolic traps focussing on tryptophan/kyneurenine. Serotonin And a very clear and strong message from Ron Davis that people should not experiment on themselves because he said...

This thread has been split from the main Stanford Community Symposium thread. Is it just me or was the Jarred Younger stuff really exciting? Does that strike you as the sort of thing that should be getting replicated as a priority, @Jonathan Edwards? (Not sure if you're watching but he was...