Last week, we welcomed four new cross-disciplinary fellows for 2024🎉.
Great to have you join our vibrant research community! Read more👇
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With your help, #DecodeME has built the world’s largest data set on ME/CFS.

We are now welcoming data access applications from researchers who wish to use this in studies into ME/CFS and other diseases.

Find out more ➡️ shorturl.at/wDEKQ

Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh online event on ME/CFS & #LongCOVID for clinicians & students

Tuesday 4th June 2024, 6.00pm – 8.30pm (BST)

Speakers include Dr Nicola Clague-Baker , It'sME(Jaime) , Putrino Lab & Danny Altmann

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2 million people living in private households in England and Scotland were experiencing self-reported long COVID

Symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after a confirmed or suspected #COVID19 infection that were not explained by something else.

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A Welcome to the Era of Genome Editing today NEJM
Overview George Q Daley
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Casgevy for Sickle-Cell Disease
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Casgevy for Beta-Thalassemia
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Today, we’re launching a new in-app research study into reinfections with Patient-Led Research Collaborative🚀

It’s been widely reported by people with #LongCovid & #MECFS that infections can have a significant impact on long-term symptoms

With your help, we can better understand this phenomenon 🧵

An autoantibody signature predictive for multiple sclerosis | Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

“All the big breakthroughs that have happened...it’s been because of a study exactly like this one. It’s the start of something, not the end.” shorturl.at/fwKM0 Thank you to Channel 4 News for showcasing #DecodeME and to The Real M.E. 👩‍🦽🦥♿️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📢 and all our other participants.

Near-term, scientists alone won't unravel #MECFS , but augmented with AI, we have a shot. This is why establishing large, accessible bio & tissue banks with well-stratified cohorts & PEM samples should be the primary goal. AI requires large datasets (= bio banks) to be effective.

World's largest genetic study of ME offers hope to sufferers - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=3bPNjc…

The professor leading the world’s largest genetic study into #ME says research is lagging decades behind because society still doesn’t take it seriously enough.
Prod: Joe Lajszczuk/Lucia Walker
Cam: Aidan black

World's largest genetic study of ME offers hope to sufferers. Chris Ponting on Channel 4 News on how #MEcfs is 20 years behind other diseases because society doesn’t take it seriously. DecodeME the ME/CFS Study trying to change this w PwME. youtu.be/3bPNjc4dRRs?si…

Watch DecodeME on Channel 4 news. We are passionate about raising awareness of #MECFS and the need for more research funding. Tune on Channel 4 today at 7pm.

Applications are now open to join our new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation for September 2024 entry. All the information you need to apply is ➡️ ai4biomed.io UK Research and Innovation UKRI CDT in AI for Biomedical Innovation

Long COVID still has no cure — so these patients are turning to research go.nature.com/3PHJBjx

An exciting discovery from Scotland - this 1800-year-old slice of pizza was recently unearthed in the ruins of a broch. The dish was introduced to the region c. AD 83 by the Romans. Fragments of oil jars found nearby suggest that the Picts deep fried rather than baked their pizza

In this preprint, Aylwyn Scally, Richard Durbin and I present evidence for deep population structure shared by all modern humans biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Aylwyn Scally Richard Durbin

The School of Life Sciences UoD Life Sciences, Dundee, has a major ongoing programme of PI recruitment (up to 45 positions over the next 5 years) - here's a new advertisement focused on the Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology department:
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Nature research paper: Role of IL-27 in Epstein–Barr virus infection revealed by IL-27RA deficiency go.nature.com/3J5ODml

Based on the assumption that there are no long-term healthcare funding commitments to manage Long Covid, our modelling results using #E3ME estimate that Long Covid is likely to reduce GDP by around £1.5bn and around 138,000 jobs each year. 4/8