One of his earlier tests looks for parasites sequencing pieces of DNA and none matching parasites were found. He is working on developing a PCR method for detecting specific parasites from cell free DNA and it should be more sensitive and specific. He has SO MANY irons in the fire and more all the time.
Thank you for this info. It is truly amazing how many irons in the fire Prof. Davis has.
After reading Cort Johnson's latest interview with Prof. Davis where he provides more details about the "Weird Blood Project" in which they are finding slower blood flow from blood vessels to capillaries in ME/CFS patients and hypothesized that the red blood cells could be too stiff and having trouble deforming, I found literature on "The Effect of Sepsis on the Erythrocyte" which does include red blood cells' increased rigidity and loss of deformability and changes in or loss of capillary flow. The paper also discusses some things about glycolysis and ATP that I don't know if relate to any of the findings in ME/CFS. (Sepsis is Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome with the addition of documented or presumed infection.)
The Effect of Sepsis on the Erythrocyte
http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/9/1932/pdf
"We review the effects of sepsis on the erythrocyte, including changes in RBC volume, metabolism and hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen, morphology, RBC deformability (an early indicator of sepsis), antioxidant status, intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, membrane proteins, membrane phospholipid redistribution, clearance and RBC O₂-dependent adenosine triphosphate efflux (an RBC hypoxia signaling mechanism involved in microvascular autoregulation)."
I am wondering if it might be informative to run the nanoneedle salt stress test on blood from patients with sepsis or SIRS in addition to the other diseases mentioned as planned in the video. I suspect sepsis/SIRS blood might show the same reaction as ME/CFS patients given the "100%" similarity in gene expression profile.
On a related note, I suspect that running the nanoneedle salt stress test on actual deconditioned patients' blood would probably look like healthy controls since deconditioning seems to be from loss of muscle and not at the molecular level. It would really disprove the deconditioning theory if blood from paralyzed people or people who have been bedridden by injury looked like healthy controls.
So many possible irons to put in the fire....