Fidji Simo, the former director of OpenAI and former Facebook executive, is using artificial intelligence to search for new treatments for chronic diseases – including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), the one she suffers from herself.

This study determines handgrip strength (HGS) using a digital hand dynamometer as an objective measure of muscle function in Post-COVID Syndrome, aiming to assess its utility in symptom quantification and explore its relationship with endothelial dysfunction (ED) and inflammatory markers.

A team led by Shreya Madhav Nuguri and Kevin V. Hackshaw at the University of Texas at Austin, working with collaborators at The Ohio State University and Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain, combined two powerful analytical techniques, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, to probe whether the blood of people with fibromyalgia carries a detectable molecular fingerprint.