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  1. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Yes, it also feels like a pissing contest between OpenAI and Anthropic. Solving scientific problems as fast as possible to show investors how advanced their model is. At least they're throwing talent and money at things that might actually be useful - probably better than creating credit...
  2. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    @Jonathan Edwards would be interested in hearing your views about this, especially regarding whether AI has true intelligence, understanding, and insight. Also, with your expertise in research on consciousness, do you think AI models already have consciousness, that they will get it in the...
  3. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    I think most of the world doesn't see this yet, because you have to have one foot inside programming or math to really understand how powerful AI is at the moment. Most people's experience of AI is asking it a question instead of googling it - so a single agent, on a free version, not the...
  4. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Not so sure about this because, in essence, it comes down to how much one can extrapolate from the data we collect. How many more scientific rules and principles can an AI distill from those than us? I guess that it's likely a lot. Perhaps the AI will be able to predict those novel...
  5. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Project: Single Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis of the Immune Cell Receptor Repertoire in Patients with ME/CFS and Post-COVID-Syndrome

    I thought that Dibble (T-cell repertoires) and Ryback (B-cell repertoires) already did this, but without clear results.
  6. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Genetics: Chromosome 18, DCC

    Thanks, although I already had the impression that DCC is one of those long genes that shows up in a lot of places.
  7. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    I'm not so sure, suspect we're almost at the point where AI (the top models like Claude Fable or GPT-6-Astra) is better and faster at coding than almost all human coders. I don't have a coding background though, so perhaps others can provide more insight. It seems to have already have made an...
  8. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Feel free to share more insight from the mathematics community because it feels like insight/warning about what's going to happen in many other fields. The coding community is similarly affected but it has many people wanting to hype AI because of commercial interests, so I feel like the...
  9. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    I suspect they use multiple LLM AI agents when working on such complex problems, with some AIs coordinating tasks and others trying out different options and possibilities. So in a sense it doesn't matter that some AI answers are really stupid, they are probably reviewed by other AI bots and...
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    The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals, 2026, Kerrebijn et al

    I did an attempt at doing a colocalization analysis between this fibromyalgia GWAS and DecodeME. Took significant hits from both GWAS and then checked if the other had a similar signal. This is done using the coloc package in R which assumes only 1 causal SNP. The downside is that this often...
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    Preprint Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, 2025, DecodeMe Collaboration

    Found some more support for this in this preprint (Ji et al. 2025) Benchmarking genome-wide association study causal gene prioritization for drug discovery They looked at genetic evidence leading to successful drug development. Distance (the nearest gene method) did equally well compared to...
  12. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Beyond genes: EpiSwitch® & Orion platform-powered 3D genome architecture biomarkers reveal shared biology across ME/CFS, LC, PTSD, RA&MS, 2026, Hunter

    They are in large part determined by distance but the folding can change that distance. We have looked at tools like H-MAGMA that try to incorporate that. A computational tool (H-MAGMA) for improved prediction of brain-disorder risk genes by incorporating brain chromatin interaction profiles |...
  13. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Beyond genes: EpiSwitch® & Orion platform-powered 3D genome architecture biomarkers reveal shared biology across ME/CFS, LC, PTSD, RA&MS, 2026, Hunter

    Can only add that this paper (like their previous one) raises all sorts of red flags for me. There's a lot of (justified) enthusiasm for genetic findings in ME/CFS but this isn't line of research isn't part of it. The media attention is mostly driven by commercial interests, rather than the...
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    Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Dysautonomia: International Multidisciplinary Expert Consensus, Sivakoti et al, 2026

    The name dys-autonomia suggests these patients have a defect in the autonomous nervous system which we don't know yet.
  15. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Muscle sodium content in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 2022, Petter, Scheibenbogen, Wirth et al

    Looks like the VADYS-ME study found something similar: https://s4me.info/threads/investigations-of-vascular-dysfunction-and-hypoperfusion-in-patients-diagnosed-with-me-cfs-vadys-me-2027-d%C3%B6hner-et-al.51494/post-716581
  16. ME/CFS Science Blog

    The buspirone challenge test clearly distinguishes ME/CFS patients from healthy controls: why is it not being developed and deployed?

    I wrote a brief blog article on the buspirone findings to help highlight the findings. It links to this S4ME discussion and the excellent overview by forestglip. https://mecfsscience.org/increased-prolactin-response-to-buspirone/
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    Anil van der Zee has been appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau

    Well-deserved recognition for an impressive person.
  18. ME/CFS Science Blog

    The buspirone challenge test clearly distinguishes ME/CFS patients from healthy controls: why is it not being developed and deployed?

    Excellent work! The group tags probably aren't that important. The main thing to note is that several studies were students from working under Behan as your review already does.
  19. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Netherlands: PAIS [Post-Acute Infection Syndromes] Conference, 26th to 29th August, 2026, Amsterdam

    Too poor to buy online access to the conference but would be interested in hearing more about this presentation:
  20. ME/CFS Science Blog

    Thesis Hypothalamic Dysfunction and Neurotransmitter Abnormalities in the Postviral Fatigue Syndrome, 1992, Bakheit

    I calculated an effect size (Hedges g) using the data in the thesis. Males Using prolactin values after 1 hour -1.38 [-2.42, -0.30] Using prolactin difference between baseline and 1 hour - 1.45 [-2.51, -0.36] Females Using prolactin values after 1 hour -1.71 [-2.96, -0.40] Using prolactin...
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