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1) 🇺🇸 The Research team of Nancy Klimas in Florida has received a $ 3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their study will investigate whether exposure to toxic mold affects symptom severity and the immune system in ME/CFS patients.

3) The NIH page gives some more info about the goals of the project. The authors write: "We hypothesize that mycotoxins induce transcriptomic reprogramming in immune cells and extracellular vesicles (EVs), leading to immune exhaustion and chronic inflammation."

4) They plan to measure urinary mycotoxins and use single-cell RNA sequencing to define mycotoxin contribution to transcriptomic alterations in blood cell subsets in ME/CFS patients.

5) The study will also integrate multi-omics data with machine learning to identify correlations between mycotoxin exposure, immune dysregulation, and symptom severity.