of improvement from this illness and sometimes return to full normal health. hannah's blood samples are arriving at europe's first me dedicated bio—bank. the project is at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicineof several research efforts around the world bringing experts together to hopefully make breakthroughs. we are trying to find what causes me, cfs, finding abnormalities that happen with people with me, to find a way to diagnose the disease. we need more and more research in this area to be able to fully understand what it is. at the end of the day, we want to understand why people have these symptoms they have. and ultimately, if you understand what is going on, we can find a treatment that will be effective in curing people. staff think they are making good progress and have made what may one day be an exciting discovery. but they are cautious not to raise hopes to soon. i am going to addenbrookes hospital to find out about another biological research study that is taking place. merryn‘s mum always told me she tried to support me sufferers any way she could. she has donated her brain for further research and it will be studied here at addenbrookes. i have come to the neuropathology la

in our research at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, we are trying to look at the immune is starting to change slowly. —— everybody seems to know somebody with me. what are you hoping for, will you be able to prove somebody has me? we are trying to find what we call the biomarker, or to find what we call the biomarker, ora to find what we call the biomarker, or a clinical feature which can show the presence or even the absence of me. long—term, i imagine there was hope for a cure. what would a cure for something like me look like? we still need to know what me is doing. there is growing evidence showing abnormalities in different systems in the body but it is a jigsaw. some pieces are still missing and we desperately need more research to be done, so the bio bank can expedite this research, can speed it up. because we have blood samples from people with me, blood samples from people with me, blood samples from people with me, blood samples from controls, that recall the healthy controls, and people with another disease, which has multiple sclerosis. we can compare the sam