The nanoneedle salt stress test – too good a clue to leave abandoned on the lab bench?

A new announcement on this joint MEA/MERUK project today:

MERUK said:
ME Research UK and the ME Association are excited to build on our October 2023 partnership, when we jointly funded a 12-month study exploring electrical differences in blood cells from people with ME/CFS.

This next phase of funding will refine and expand the initial work, giving us deeper insights into the biology of ME/CFS and moving us closer to a reliable and low-cost diagnostic test.

The study builds on initial findings in 2019 by Professor Ron Davis and his team from America, who developed a nanoelectronics test which could detect an impedance in white blood cells taken from people with ME/CFS.

The new grant has been awarded to Dr Fatima Labeed (United Arab Emirates University), who authored the initial research, and Dr Jacqueline Cliff, who will host the work in her laboratory at Brunel University of London.
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This is the nanoneedle, right? I'd thought this whole enterprise had gone down the plug at some point but apparently not!
 
Sasha said:
A new announcement on this joint MEA/MERUK project today:



This is the nanoneedle, right? I'd thought this whole enterprise had gone down the plug at some point but apparently not!
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Its based on the nanoneedle. MEResearch funded some work that replicated the nanoneedle finding and then there was a further piece of work by a PHD who looked at the electricial properties of cells without the the need for the nanoneedle component and found a similar effect but much cheaper to run. I believe this is a follow on to that work rather than the replication of the nanoneedle although its all connected together because its all the same type of finding.
 
BrightCandle said:
Its based on the nanoneedle.
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I think it might be better described as inpired by the nanoneedle work. I could never see how the nanoneedle system could tell us anything much about electrical properties of cells of actual biological interest. The system seemed to have been developed to test impedance of solutions. But the work done more recently by Labeed did seem more relevant. Whether it 'replicates' I am not sure, but it looked worth following up.
 
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