Study suggests natural killer cells are whacking the small nerve fibers in fibromyalgia After decades of surveying chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) literature, the study, “Unbiased immune profiling reveals a natural killer cell-peripheral...
Eric Schadt, the study’s senior author, is not your average researcher, and Phillip Comella, the lead author, has personal experience with mysterious diseases and difficult diagnoses. A biomathematician and bioengineer, Schadt has been at the forefront of...
A recent Australian study suggested an already FDA approved drug can revive the not so killer natural killer cells found in ME/CFS in the lab. If that finding translates to humans we’ll have a breakthrough in the one verified immune hole in ME/CFS – one...
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...
Hot Story The media reports have been sizzling! Griffith University, the home of the NCNED group in Australia that produced the study, called it “groundbreaking”. IFL Science lead off with a piece called “People With Chronic Fatigue Have A Defective...
Natural killer cells appear to be the ground zero for the immune dysfunction found in chronic fatigue syndrome. These cells are, as their name implies, killers. They’re called “natural” killer cells because in contrast to cytotoxic T-cells which...
