Part Two of a Series: Hope for the Future!

Good day, everybody!
Last week, I reviewed what chronic fatigue syndrome is, the seriousness of it, and the demographics of it. It is a disease which, as of late, could only be diagnosed by physical examinations, gathering patient history, and ruling out other diseases, often leading to inaccurate diagnoses. This, however, could soon become a thing of the past.

A team of scientists have now developed a test which cannot only diagnose the condition accurately, but could also help screen for effective medication for the debilitating disease. Ronald Davis, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University and his team are responsible for developing this test.

Here’s how it works; the test evaluates how the immune cells and plasma of cfs patients react to stress by using a testing method which measures small energy changes in the cells. This allowed the team to study the health of the immune cells and blood plasma as far as how they process stress. The test is used to detect, ” biomolecular interactions in real time,” by using electrodes to create an electrical current in small chambers containing blood specimens of of immune cells and plasma to evaluate the interaction between the two.( Biomolecules are defined as the building blocks of life and perform important functions in living organisms.) They then evaluated the changes(spikes) in the electrical current. The test was used on 40 test subjects, 20 of whom had cfs and 20 of whom did not. They discovered the bigger the changes(spikes in the electrical current) the less healthy the blood specimens were, correctly identifying the subjects who had cfs.

In addition, controlled doses of potentially effective drugs can be tested by using the same testing method as above. If there are still spikes in the current, then the drugs tested would not be effective.

It sounds encouraging! Not only is there a better chance of being diagnosed correctly, but it also gives us credibility. It proves this is a real illness with real biological processes going on in our bodies. It will be interesting to see what the follow up testing shows.

Well, that’s all for now. I will talk to all of you next week! Goodbye for now.

Beckie

Source:
Medical News Today
Article by Ana Sandoiu
April, 30th, 2019
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