by Cort Johnson | Mar 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Homepage
Terms The Bug Coronaviruses – a group of viruses distinguished by spike-like projections which give the appearance of a solar corona. Of the seven known to infect humans, four can produce severe respiratory infections. Primarily transmitted via droplets...
by Cort Johnson | Dec 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Cardiovascular, Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Genetics, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, Others, Pathogens, Research
Solve ME's Ramsay Awards fund pilot studies into T-cells, Class II MHC molecules, the microbiome/virome, the autonomic nervous system and brain blood perfusion and functionality in chronic fatigue syndrome.
by Cort Johnson | Oct 22, 2019 | Lyme Disease (Borrelia)
Lyme disease has been a scourge in parts of the U.S. for decades but doctors are still using diagnostic tests developed in the 1990’s. Researchers now assert, though, that a definitive diagnostic test is technically feasible. Plus, powered by Congressional...
by Cort Johnson | Jul 4, 2019 | Brain, Epstein-Barr Virus, Neuroinflammation, Pathogens
A smoldering Epstein-Barr virus infection could be allowing the virus entry into the brains of people with chronic fatigue syndrome.
by Cort Johnson | Jun 30, 2019 | Epstein-Barr Virus, Gene expression, Homepage, Pathogens
If there was ever a “prodigal virus” in ME/CFS, it would be the Epstein-barr virus (EBV). Since the first EBV ME/CFS study in 1984, dozens of studies have examined the role the virus may play in this diseases, and tens of thousands have studied its...
by Cort Johnson | May 26, 2019 | Cytomegalovirus, Gut, Homepage, Natural Killer Cells, T-cells
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells – which form a bridge between the gut and...