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  1. hotblack

    News from PrecisionLife Ltd.

    I have mixed feelings about studies doing this. On the one hand it’s the sort of information I would of course love to have and am very interested in. On the other, it’s as yet unknown if this information is accurate let alone useful, these studies are part of a process to determine this...
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    News from PrecisionLife Ltd.

    Posting the unformatted text (with linebreaks added) from the above post here for those who use dark mode to view the forums (the html formatting means it ends up as black text on a black background)
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    :rofl: Thanks for that much needed laugh at this The point on cost and returns is definitely one that needs to be made to those commissioning services. And perhaps that it looks like people are trying to game the system with their own measurements of success as we’ve seen done before.
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    T cells promote microglia-mediated synaptic elimination and cognitive dysfunction during recovery from neuropathogenic flaviviruses, 2019, Garber+

    I seem to remember hearing about the idea of this ‘pulses’ at night before, but I forget where.
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    Yes. Overall it seems like they put a lot of work into trying to say “we do believe it’s a real thing now we’re just trying to help people” to give themselves cover for an approach which is based in rehabilitation and psychology, while lacking any evidence for this beyond their own ‘experience’...
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    How do we stop charities and influencers spreading bio-babble about ME/CFS?'

    Seeing the approach by BACME take in their recent guide I think reinforces what @Jonathan Edwards has been saying, I’m coming around more to the need to be a bit hardline in this BACME have no evidence for their rehabilitation approach. Their justification is based upon nothing more than their...
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    This from the section “Overview of the Therapy” sets out their stall. I’m pretty gobsmacked tbh. This is the sort of justification people turn to when they don’t have evidence. “It may not work but it is my right!”
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    UK BACME ME/CFS Guide to Therapy 2025

    Wow. That chart and defence is quite something. That they’ve gone to such lengths to me is a clear sign of bad faith. This is an ideological and political document not a clinical one. Nice to see them finally admit some of the problems with GET of course! They’re still slipping in early life...
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    Review An emerging role for calcium signalling in innate and autoimmunity via the cGAS-STING axis, 2019, Mathavarajah et al

    I have a gazillion tabs open with papers and tbh I can’t remember if this was one @jnmaciuch mentioned or something I found while going down a rabbit hole when first getting into this topic. But I couldn’t find it posted so thought it worth sharing as an overview
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    Review An emerging role for calcium signalling in innate and autoimmunity via the cGAS-STING axis, 2019, Mathavarajah et al

    An emerging role for calcium signalling in innate and autoimmunity via the cGAS-STING axis Mathavarajah, Sabateeshan; Salsman, Jayme; Dellaire, Graham Abstract Type I interferons are effector cytokines essential for the regulation of the innate immunity. A key effector of the type I interferon...
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    United Kingdom News (including UK wide, England, NI and Wales - see separate thread for news from Scotland)

    I wish people organising these would give more notice, a few days is not enough notice for most people to write to their MPs and far too short notice for MPs to arrange anyhing. At least it’s a Wednesday so some may be milling about in between sessions but you will just get those with nothing...
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    News from PrecisionLife Ltd.

    The webinar has been rescheduled to Dec 5th at 2pm. Just got an email update from the Zoom invite.
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    Chronic CXCL10 alters neuronal properties in rat hippocampal culture, 2009, Cho et al

    We don’t know if it is causal. I’d certainly not argue against be being so, as it did feel like that to me in some ways. But equally my decline could be explained by a general unrelated decline with those PEM periods as humps within it. So I’m not sure if’s a must have in any explanation...
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    Chronic CXCL10 alters neuronal properties in rat hippocampal culture, 2009, Cho et al

    Nice loop. Could this also end up being in a sort of background low level state and ramped up state too do you think? I’m really interested in potential shifts in GABA and glutamate receptors over time and in response to activity/medications or immune activity. Thanks for sharing the ideas and...
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    A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation, 2025, Yadav et al

    A bit sci-fi you may say, but there’s some interesting merging of ideas here. These things are tiny, but can still generate power They seem to piggyback on immune cells ability to cross the blood brain barrier And use something called click chemistry to (which won the Nobel Prize for...
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    A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation, 2025, Yadav et al

    Also discussed in this article https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/tiny-chips-hitch-a-ride-on-immune-cells-to-sites-of-inflammation
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    A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation, 2025, Yadav et al

    A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation Abstract Bioelectronic implants for brain stimulation are used to treat brain disorders but require invasive surgery. To provide a noninvasive alternative, we report nonsurgical implants consisting...
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    How do we stop charities and influencers spreading bio-babble about ME/CFS?'

    I think I’ve said it before but I’m hoping for a new name at some point. Because honestly there is so much baggage and misinformation. To anyone outside and even to many with the condition all his arguing over a name looks utterly bonkers. Rebranding isn’t perfect but it happens because it...
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    Artificial intelligence in medicine and science

    Thanks @forestglip I had tried that website earlier, its a bit heavy going on my iPad and also didn’t seem to have much detail. It seems it was giving me the mobile view though and rotating my screen gives a more advanced desktop view with search!
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    Artificial intelligence in medicine and science

    If they can do this with reasonable accuracy it sounds promising. The metadata could be interesting and scale of the project sounds interesting. They seem to be focusing on relationships between papers/embeddings, but I’m unsure if this would translate into tje granularity of some of the...
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