Tag: microbiome

The Microbiome Hypothesis: Lipkin’s Collaborative, Part 1

Author of the ME/CFS Research Review blog, Simon McGrath, has written an article about Dr W. Ian Lipkin’s theory that the body’s response to changes in the gut could be what’s driving ME/CFS for at least some patients. A gut reaction is the problem in ME/CFS – that’s the main idea being pursued by Dr W. Ian

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New Research Project Launches through SMCI’s Targeted Initiative Research Program

SMCI recently launched a new partnership as a component of our targeted initiative program, within our Pathways and Biomarkers Discovery Track. The project consists of original research in the areas of bioenergetics, metabolomics, and lipidomics using high-throughput technology. Importantly, this new SMCI research project relies on blood from well-qualified patients from The Levine Clinic; it also builds on recent discoveries in gut microbiome from Dr. Maureen Hanson’s lab, which uses these same patients.

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Help fund CII’s ME/CFS Monster Study: Microbes, Immunity, & Complex Data

Columbia University – Center for Infection and Immunity has seriously upped the ante on the initial microbe discovery project in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Their impressive, rigorous new study could point the way to diagnostic tests, and even treatments – but first they need the funds to complete the work.

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