OMF: A message from Ron Davis (two Stanford engineering researchers added to their team)

[Kalliope]

OMF: A Message from Ron Davis

OMF announces that two new Stanford engineering researchers have been added to their team who will expand their red blood cell deformability projects.

You can read a further introduction of the two new team members, Eric Shaqfed, PhD and Juan Santiago, PhD by following the link.

 

[Hutan]

Red blood cells (RBCs) transport oxygen from the lungs to the cells of your body and then carry carbon dioxide from your cells to your lungs. For RBCs to get to all these cells, they need to be able to flow through small blood vessels with minimal friction. Ultimately, this requires RBCs to be smooth, rounded, and elastic. Alterations in these properties of RBCs can occur during chronic inflammatory diseases like sepsis, and we have found that this deformability is also occurring in ME/CFS.

 

[duncan]

I hope they are taking a close look for babesia d and strains of bartonella not on the radar, especially where they are in California. Both are notorious for their inclination to inflict damage from within erythrocytes and endothelial cells; both can be devilishly difficult to trace.

Moreover, either can cause different forms of anemia, further contributing to RBC morphology, at least in theory.