The thousands of mouse models that have been produced have played a critical role in understanding and developing drugs for diseases. Guess which disease, though, does not have one? That’s right it’s ME/CFS. For 40 years it’s been missing a critical...
An $8 million clinical trial of a mitochondrial enhancer, no less, in ME/CFS? I thought I was hearing things but it was so, and, in the end, it even makes sense given how rapidly some parts of this field are moving forward. But first, a little backstory. A...
Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...
I tried to lay as still as possible. It felt like I’d swallowed a stick of dynamite that was slowly detonating. Any movement at all would send what seemed like waves of molten lava cascading inside me. As the burning sensations slowly eased, though, I felt an...
Frustrated for 10 years in his desire to study ME/CFS, Paul Fisher of LaTrobe University in Australia made the most of it when he got the chance He and his lead researcher on these studies, Daniel Missailidis, have rolled off four studies and two reviews in the last...
It took a muscle biopsy to uncover it but there it was – strong evidence, apparently, of a bona fide mitochondrial deficiency in some people with fibromyalgia (FM). Julian Ambrus, the senior author of this paper has published widely in and developed an animal...
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