@scienceforme
We are an independent, patient-led, international discussion forum (www.s4me.info) for people with ME/CFS and the carers, clinicians, scientists and advocates who support us. This account is maintained on a part-time basis by patients.
Long-COVID: assessment of circulating markers suggests no cerebral neuronal damage, neuroinflammation or systemic inflammation–a controlled study — Omdal et al.
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Association of symptoms of neuropsychological long COVID with imaging and plasma biomarkers — Taizen Nakase et al.
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Increased incidence of mild cognitive impairment in long COVID patients — Jennifer A. Frontera et al.
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Post COVID-19 condition is associated with altered regional cerebral blood volume as revealed by dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI — MacIntosh et al.
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Microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles link intestinal dysbiosis to neuroimmune activation in long COVID — Matheus Aranguren et al.
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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in COVID-19 positive patients reveals alterations in pathways linked to neurological dysfunction — Zameer et al.
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Plasma proteomic profile reveals persistent immune activation in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection — Fineschi et al.
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Is the RACGP HANDI recommendation of incremental physical activity for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis harming patients? — Stallard et al.
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Identifying post-exertional malaise subtypes: Differentiating physical and mental PEM manifestations — Katherine Tuzzolino et al.
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The association between hair cortisol levels, Epstein-Barr virus infections and chronic fatigue in adolescents — Berit Elise Bergem Kongsnes et al.
"elevated hair cortisol levels prior to EBV infection were not associated with an increased risk of developing chronic fatigue"
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Assessment and Incidence Determination of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following a SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Prospective Cohort of Hospital Employees — Matthias Tack et al.
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Pipeline-optimized machine learning for chronic fatigue syndrome diagnosis: A lightweight, interpretable model using blood biochemical and metabolomic data — Li et al.
UK Biobank data, with self-reported diagnosis.
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Extracellular Vesicle Protein and MiRNA Signatures as Biomarkers for Post-Infectious ME/CFS Patients — Martina Seifert et al.
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Charting the circulating proteome in ME/CFS using cross-system profiling to uncover mechanistic insights — August Hoel et al.
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🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum.
2 - 8 Mar 2026
Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related news for the week of Mar. 2 - 8:
Topics:
News, advocacy, articles
Coming events
Research news and commentary
Published research
www.s4me.info/threads/news...
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Progressively Widening Healthcare Costs in Long COVID Over Five Years — Jingya Cheng et al.
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Symptom Patterns, Recovery, and Impact of Long COVID: Findings From a Longitudinal Survey — Ziauddeen et al.
"Data from a 1-year follow-up of an online Long COVID survey were used." "… Long COVID remains a debilitating illness, with only 5% (n = 54) of the study sample reporting recovery."
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Acute inflammation and fronto-striatal connectivity in the transition from acute to persistent fatigue after mild COVID-19: A longitudinal fMRI study — Zhu et al.
"patients with persistent fatigue exhibited elevated acute-phase CRP levels"
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Association of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors autoantibodies with vasoregulation in Post-COVID— Felix S. Seibert et al.
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Exploratory analyses of Immunologic Features in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir for Long COVID — Bornali Bhattacharjee et al.
"no virological or immunological evidence supports [Paxlovid] as a treatment for Long COVID."
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CD169+ and HLA-DR+ extracellular vesicles are highly represented in human plasma and dynamically expressed in SARS-CoV-2 infection and long COVID-associated sequelae — Fanelli et al.
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ICD-10 Diagnoses prior to ME/CFS diagnosis in children and young people suggest potential early diagnostic indicators — Wirth et al.
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Systematic Examination of Gene Expression and Proteomic Evidence Across Tissues Supports the Role of Mitochondrial Dysregulation in ME/CFS — Gregory R. Keele et al.
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Outcomes of ME/CFS following infectious mononucleosis: seven-year follow-up of a prospective study — Jason et al.
"Seventy-nine percent of those with Severe ME/CFS 7 years later continued to meet the criteria for ME/ CFS."
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Single-cell analysis reveals immune remodeling of monocytes, NK cells, T cell exhaustion, and Galectin-9–associated depletion of gamma delta and mucosal-associated invariant T cells in Long COVID with ME/CFS — Shahbaz et al.
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Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading for #MECFS, #LongCovid, and related news for the week of Feb. 23 - Mar. 1:
Topics:
News, advocacy and articles
Coming events
Research news and commentary
& Published research
www.s4me.info/threads/news...
Jonathan Edwards and other members of @scienceforme.bsky.social are drafting a document on what we want in terms of service provision for ME/CFS. Latest draft here: www.s4me.info/threads/a-th...
All welcome to comment and make suggestions before the document before it is finalised.
🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum.
23 Feb - 1 Mar 2026