Could “Junk DNA” Be Causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
DNA that doesn’t get translated into proteins used to be called “junk DNA” but it turns out that much of it isn’t junk at all. Much of what was formerly turned junk DNA is actually actively modifying how our genes are being expressed and our...
Ramsay’s Continue Focus on the Mitochondria in ME/CFS – Plus, the Hunt for a Drug Target is On (!)
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Ramsay Awards are small grants (@$50K – only in the medical field is 50K small) but potentially mighty grants. They are designed to give researchers the funding to produce pilot data needed to get really big grants – the...
“The Great Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Community Gene Study” Breaks New Ground
It’s a bold idea. Get people with chronic fatigue syndrome to contribute their 23andME or Ancestry.com data and the researchers will do the rest. Nancy Klimas’s project at the Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University ultimately...
The RCCX Hypothesis: Could It Help Explain Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia and other Diseases?
Could the RCCX hypothesis by Sharon Megalthery help explan chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, POTS and other diseases?
System Reset? Study Suggests Pro-Inflammatory / Autoimmune Reset Occurred in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Whether your life changed very quickly or the change was more gradual, the outcome was the same: some sort of system reset left you stuck in a chronic illness state. Because epigenetics identifies “genetic resets” that occur as a result of meeting up with...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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