Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of this blog The “complement” system doesn’t at first glance sound like much. Its name reflects the fact that, in part, it “complements” the immune system; i.e. it triggers immune cells to...
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...
It took about three years but the first major international conference on long COVID – the “Keystone Long COVID and Post Acute Sequalae of SARS CoV 2 (PASC): Pathogenesis and Treatment” conference recently took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the El...
Could ME/CFS be next? There’s nothing like a pandemic to open new doors on post-infectious diseases, and it’s no surprise that the Henrich/Peluso team at the University of California at San Francisco would be the ones to do that. With their LIINC project,...
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
Maureen Hanson’s group at Cornel continues to pound out fascinating results. The latest one – a preprint, “Single-cell transcriptomics of the immune system in ME/CFS at baseline and following symptom provocation” – again demonstrates why...