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This is a report on the use of antiserum in the 1934 Los Angeles outbreak: Use of Serum and the Routine and Experimental Laboratory Findings in the 1934 Poliomyelitis Epidemic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1558945/ There were two kinds of antisera used. One was obtained from...

This kind of reminds me of something Francis Collins said on The Charlie Rose Show when he "announced" that the NIH was going to look more deeply into ME/CFS. As part of making the case for looking into ME/CFS, he said something along the lines of that doing so might help them to understand the...

At last, my plan to clone Monkees is one step closer to fruition!

Yeah - It's hard to exactly say, but it sounds like if they get positive results from the GWI trial, then they won't feel the need to develop an animal model for ME/CFS and will rely entirely on the simulations from the In Silico computer system. My impression is that developing the animal model...

Yes. When I used the confused emoji above [:confused:], it was entirely because their explanation of "lack of change in their condition" sounded like an odd, perhaps "catch-all" reason for 10% of the participants to drop out of a trial in which it was known going in that there was a 50/50 chance...

Could this 1999 study out of The University of Sheffield have been the one? The role of essential fatty acids in chronic fatigue syndrome. A case-controlled study of red-cell membrane essential fatty acids (EFA) and a placebo-controlled treatment study with high dose of EFA...

At about 8:40, Dr. Klimas say, "In the ME/CFS world, we have the models. We know what to do. We're ready for human clinical trials." Later she says their phase one Gulf War study will be their "proving ground" and will be done in about a year. She also says, "So, I'm hoping to be in a chronic...

Well, if there's one thing I've learned from the movies, it's that sometimes, when you seem to have lost, you've actually won. Rocky (1976) Braveheart (1995) Casablanca (1942) Congratulation to Jen Brea and all involved. The story isn't over yet.

Well, this is one reason why it is good that in order to vote for a documentary feature you must have seen all five nominated documentaries. I think that people who have seen the documentaries with their own eyes are unlikely to be influenced much - if at all - by negative IMDB reviews. I'm...

I believe Mr. Vogt may deserve the "Norwegian Facepalm" - for when you've done something so stupid that the shock and dismay are felt all he way back to the 12th-century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

I was just going to post about this. By an amazing coincidence, both "CCharlesi..." have written positive reviews about different pro nuclear power documentaries. What are the odds?

The reference to increased susceptibility to "pattern-glare" interested me because I'd had not seen that term used in connection with ME before. When I went looking for examples of pattern glare, I found the image below, here. This kind of pattern, seen in the real world, would drive me...

Among other things, Tofacitinib is used to treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease. One cause of IBD are changes in the intestinal microbiota. There have been a couple of papers showing altered composition of the gut microbiota in ME/CFS. There is a history of IBD in my family, so it's tempting for...

My understanding is that the voting by various committees for nominees has already concluded, having ended last Friday 1/12/2018. http://www.oscars.org/news/academy-and-abc-announce-key-dates-90th-oscars Final voting by members begins on February 20th and ends February 27th, keeping in mind...

Due to a bad internet connection, I saw relatively little of the presentation. However, I did see a section in which Dr. Montoya mentioned that a paper involving an HLA test was "positive." If you look at the Ongoing Research page here and scroll down to the Published section, it says: [This...

I'll take a stab at it... What's in the article: What was probably said: What probably should have been written:

This is an interesting article. Brain neurons are exchanging RNA molecules using HIV-shaped (icosahedral) capsules. It seems like it may have something to do with learning and the formation of long-term memories.

There's a moment in "Unrest" when Jessica Taylor's father places her back in bed after she briefly touches her feet to the floor for the first time in years. At first, I couldn't understand why the bed was shaking so much as she was laid back, but then it struck me that she was likely...

In physics, the concept of the there being alternate, but not indefinitely stable states is referred to as metastability. It's metaphorically similar to the graphic that Dr. Klimas showed in the video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability