The malfunctioning mitochondria seem to poison the immune cells, explains Yosuke Togashi, a pulmonary physician and ...

More information: David S. Iu et al, Transcriptional reprogramming primes CD8+ T cells toward exhaustion in Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, Proceedings of the National Academy ...

At the same time, they discovered favorable disease-fighting capabilities such as robust expansion and resistance to exhaustion of 'naïve' cells, those with no antigen experience. A direct ...