Category: genetics
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Interview with Professor Chris Ponting on Building ME/CFS Research Infructure with PRIME
The UK Medical Research Council recently awarded £800,000 over four years to PRIME, a partnership between Action For ME and the University of Edinburgh. PRIME will seek to develop a research infrastructure to pursue investigations into ME/CFS. The funding starts this month. According to Action For ME, the goals of PRIME are: “1. Coordinate and…
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Edinburgh Study Links ME/CFS to “Blood-Based Biomarkers”
Last fall, a team from the University of Edinburgh released a pre-print called “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for myalgic encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity.” At the time, I posted an interview with the lead investigator, Chris Ponting, a professor of genetics at the university. The peer-reviewed version of the study has just been published by the…