The UK biobank have shared samples with Karl Morten at Oxford University to look for metabolites & other chemical clues.
http://cureme.lshtm.ac.uk/biobank-samples-received-dr-karl-morten/
Small sample size but strengths of the study include using medication-free first-episode major depression and an illness control group (bipolar disorder).
Full text at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0183-x
A healthy control describes the NIH metabolic chamber which is also being used in the ME study.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17486110/metabolism-diet-fast-weight-loss?
I got this in my inbox today and it piqued my cognitively foggy interest for a couple of reasons. NB these posts move onto considering a study on metabolomics and the credibility of acupuncture (the thread isn’t specific to this study).
First of all I want to comment that I’m very sceptical of...
A set of very short (one paragraph) descriptions of the various "omics": genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microbiomics. There are also brief videos for each.
https://www.news-medical.net/amp/health/Multiomics-and-Human-Diseases.aspx?
This is the UK Biobank as opposed to the UK ME/CFS Biobank, looking at metabolic biomarkers of disease,
http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/2018/06/nightingale-health-and-uk-biobank-announces-major-initiative-to-analyse-half-a-million-blood-samples-to-facilitate-global-medical-research/
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