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A new Polybio project has been funded by ME Research UK titled "Identifying viruses in tissue and nerve samples from ME/CFS patients". The research team led by Dr Proal includes Dr Nikos Kyrpides from Berkeley National Laboratory and Dr Michael VanElzakker from Massachusetts General Hospital...

What It Is To Be Human: Holobionts and the Microbiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Dr. Amy Proal, of the PolyBio Research Foundation, explains how a human body is so much more than just a collection of human cells. Images courtesy of Dr. Amy Proal. By Bronc Dr. Amy Proal, of the PolyBio...

Fascinating talk by Amy Proal. I am just listening to Amy Proal talk about how ME research is relevant to Long Covid. She also describes why micro clots will form in ME. Unfortunately, although the content is fascinating, I find she talks too fast for the ME brain to follow. Thank...

Dr. Resia Pretorius is both the Department Head and a Research Professor in the Physiological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Her team has used super-resolution and electron microscopy, together with several other methods to identify microclots...

Ilene S. Ruhoy, MD, PhD is a board certified neurologist and Medical Director for the Chiari/EDS Center at Mount Sinai South Nassau. Dr. Ruhoy has trained in both pediatric and adult neurology at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington where she received additional training...

Dr. Michael VanElzakker and Dr. Amy Proal discuss vagus nerve to dorsal brainstem signaling and microglial activation (neuroinflammation). They further examine how environmental factors may impact this signaling in patients with ME/CFS and LongCovid.

Dr. Liisa Selin is a professor of pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In her work as a viral immunologist, she and her colleague Dr. Anna Gil recently received an NIH grant to study the role of viral infection and T-cell exhaustion in the development of ME/CFS. She has...

This is part of Polybio's new PodCast posted about by @Pyrrhus earlier this month.

I thought this recent paper probably deserved its own discussion thread... Long COVID or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC): An Overview of Biological Factors That May Contribute to Persistent Symptoms (Proal and VanElzakker, 2021)...

A brand-new research initiative from a coalition of some of the brightest young minds in ME/CFS research: