ME Research UK and the ME Association announce funding for a study that aims to create a diagnostic test for ME/CFS
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The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/carbonflow45 on 2024-01-29 20:06:09.

New developments are happening related to Ron Davis’s nanoneedle diagnostic device that he developed a few years ago with apparently very high diagnostic accuracy. Now funding is being awarded to “Professor Robert Dorey, Dr Fatima Labeed and Professor Michael Hughes from the Centre for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Surrey, and Dr Eliana Lacerda and Caroline Kingdon from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the UK ME/CFS Biobank” to:

  1. Apply the approach to a larger cohort (including mild, moderate, severe ME/CFS, and healthy and MS controls) in the hope that it will result in a reliable, repeatable, and low-cost diagnostic tool using the electrical signature from a simple blood test.
  2. Identify the cellular changes that have occurred in order to create the electrical biomarker and in so doing identify new avenues for potential treatments.