New blog at ME/CFS Research Review Dr Ron Davis has won a large NIH (US National Institutes of Health) grant for an immunology project with a...
Good point. There’s a lot of time and resources being ploughed into this hot topic by some excellent researchers. That’s not so unusual in many...
Yes. For clarity, the PhD is funded to £90k (half from AfME, half from the Scottish Chief Scientist's Office). Chris will cover direct costs for...
Answers from Chris Ponting: 1. People recruited: 500,000 of whom over 2,000 people were self-reporting as having been diagnosed with ME/CFS. Yes,...
This looks very encouraging to me. The most important thing is that it is a pitch for more funds to the Medical Research Council's Population and...
Thanks, and also I see that I went on to talk about the potential new study that I didn’t want discussed here! However, Chris just made a comment...
Yes, that one hit might be, but "(4) ME/CFS has a biological component because the heritability of ME/CFS is not zero. Canela-Xandri et al....
I always take a look at the male/female split in a study and I can't remember one with decent diagnosis that wasn't c75% female. Having said that,...
Yes, that was my thought too - but this was only a small study with many caveats so it would be dangerous to put too much weight on the one hit....
Guest blog by Professor Chris Ponting and colleagues at ME/CFS Research Review UK Biobank - a national biobank different from the ME/CFS biobank...
I didn't know that. But presumably it's still a sign of immune action? Earlier during the Stanford symposium, Mark Davis showed clonal expansion...
Chris Ponting will be at the event (he’s based at Edinburgh University).
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