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  1. hotblack

    News from PrecisionLife Ltd.

    Posting a link to this page from PrecisionLife given in the recent ME Genetics Centre of Excellence webinar. Not sure if there’s anything new but it brings together the various bits of info from the company. And has a report on the First Year Review of the LOCOME Project.
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    Inhibition of Histone Deacetylation Induces Constitutive Derepression of the Beta Interferon Promoter [...] , 2001, Shestakova et al.

    Really interesting. Thanks for sharing and for the explanation. Theres a few of these posts I have on my ‘to listen to’ list.
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    Update from the Windsor Castle Research Event (Action For ME)

    I wondered about that too. PrecisionLife seem particularly focused on that aspect already, but beyond that? Even if they don’t already have ideas about treatments it seems sensible to start talking about the pipelines. Given I’m struggling at the moment after a good spell I’m keener than ever...
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    Update from the Windsor Castle Research Event (Action For ME)

    I looked for the Action for ME thread before posting this but couldn’t find it, and have now just seen it. Sorry, total brain fade! Please feel free to move his post as I can’t seem to delete it.
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    Update from the Windsor Castle Research Event (Action For ME)

    From AfME’s website: The full summary is worth a read to understand the purpose and who was there. Looks like a useful bit of bringing people together and networking.
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    After looking through the plan in more detail I wasn’t sure if we’d see all the steps outlined in section 6 (including things like PheWAS) or get the initial base GWAS results first then followups with the extra detail. It looks like there’s potentially a lot of different and interesting pieces...
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    Maybe there are mutliple groups I’m not sure. But fingenn is specifically mentioned and they seem to have generic data already, but I don’t know about this bit of the analysis. It could even be concurrent.
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    I’ve been re-listening to some older presentations on DecodeME and going through the analysis plan in more detail and trying to learn more about the processes involved to prepare my brain for whatever comes. Here’s a few thoughts, hey maybe interesting to others and maybe people with more...
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    Trial Report Awe reduces depressive symptoms and improves well-being in a randomized-controlled clinical trial, 2025, Lopez et al

    On the one hand I do agree that experiencing awe and wonder has an impact on how we feel about things. I do agree that they are an important part of the human experience. And saying that is fine. Nice things are nice. The world is full of wonder. On the other hand I’m not sure what that’s got...
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    Trial Report Effect of normobaric and hyperbaric hyperoxia treatment on symptoms and cognitive capacities in Long COVID patients: [placebo RCT], 2025, D’hoore+

    Do they sell services privately or are they focused on military personal? I’m not sure how it works in Belgium. But possibly because they’re a military hospital is why they care about rigour and results, that is they’re focused on finding effective treatments for personal.
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    The ELAROS NHS digital system for patient/clinician digital sharing questionnaire data, includes Yorkshire Rehab. Scale and Open-OH app

    Wrapping rehab in an app feels awfully like a rehash of the past. I haven’t been through this whole thread sorry, but thanks to those who’ve been digging into this. This approach may well be useful for some people who need this sort of support to recover from illnesses. How it helps change...
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    Push to change ‘misogynistic’ name of one of the world’s most common surgeries

    For me the question is, what would have more impact, changing the name or changing how people are seen and treated? Not that these things are a choice between those two, but sometimes I do wonder about where limited effort/resource/influence is expended and if failure to be able to change one...
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    Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity, 2024, Beentjes, Ponting et al

    So presumably we could find something like some people either having a different issue, or some low affinity antibodies which in behave a bit differently in some people with ME/CFS? This could be, in some people, downstream effects of what is really going on?
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    BBC: "At-home cervical screening tests offered in England" (implications for PwME)

    Good news. There’s so much that could be made more accessible. Which would work for people with many different conditions, and just convenience for others. And could even be cheaper to deliver! (I heard on a programme a little while back this is why there’s been an increase in at home things in...
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    Noise cancelling headphones! Oh Joy! (and other ways to block sound)

    Same, I had that exact pair then upgraded to the newer X series and they’re great, I now have X3A from a few years ago and X5A just bought https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/b00037373/ https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/b00037368/ I also tried some Bose noise cancelling headphones last week...
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    Webinar: Understanding ME: Investigating cellular and body-wide features of ME, Dr Daniel Missailidis, PhD

    Lovely to hear @DMissa and I really enjoyed the talk. One of a number of great communicators and caring researchers we’re lucky to have. Looking forward to what comes out of the current project particularly in conjunction with all the other studies (obviously especially DecodeME). Pulling...
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    Preprint A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma, 2025, Edwards, Cambridge and Cliff

    Should we consider the audience that isn’t deep into this? I wonder what someone unversed in all the history would make of this and if they’d grasp the point about things having been found but there being no reliable evidence for causal mechanisms? I suppose it depends on the target audience and...
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