Posted by Cort Johnson With no less than four XMLV publications under her belt during the last 14 months Kozak is the premier XMRV evolutionary biologist. Her latest paper is a review of her and others work on murine leukemia retrovirus (MLV) evolution that delineates where contamination could come from and where it could not come from. A Hot Item!
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First ME/CFS Ad Now Running in the Washington Post!
Posted by Cort Johnson ME/CFS is hitting the lawmakers in Washington DC right in the chops today with a provocative half page ad suggesting that everybody, healthy or not, is put at risk when the federal government ignores ME/CFS. The ad has been the fruit of months of work from people with ME/CFS, the MWPCA and PANDORA. The MWPCA has
ContinueXMRV Buzz (12/3) – correction
Posted by Cort Johnson Some information on the former post was incorrect – here are the corrected sections. The Red Cross Ban leaves the FDA and the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) looking a little isolated, what with Canada, Australia the UK and now the biggest single blood donation organization in the US, all turning their thumbs down on
ContinueXMRV Buzz (12/3) – Red Cross Ban (and Patient Campaign Blood Ban) Plus All the Studies Fit to Print
Posted by Cort Johnson American Red Cross Says No to Possibly Dangerous ME/CFS Blood – Citing recent studies suggesting that XMRV may, in fact, really be present in CFS, the American Red Cross banned people with ME/CFS from donating blood. Why does a Red Cross ban of CFS blood make the newspapers? Because, as the Red Cross website puts it
ContinueXMRV Buzz (11/28) – Dr. Cheney, BWG Meeting, Newsweek….
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Cheney Reports – in his latest newsletter – or at least that part of which is available for free – Dr. Cheney reports news on the serology tests emanating from VIP Dx. Earlier Dr. Mikovits noted that antibody tests picked up more positives than PCR tests.Dr. Cheney noted that 2 out of the three people
ContinueXMRV Buzz (11/24) – The Singh XMRV Patent – The Next Cancer for XMRV? Prostate Cancer Results…
Posted by Cort Johnson The Next Cancer for XMRV? – JMK on the MECFS Forums snuffed out Dr. Singh’s XMRV patent application and then XMRV Global Action highlighted the most relevant sections and here we are with what is easily the most exciting news for XMRV since the Science paper was published in October of last year. The patent application
ContinueXMRV Buzz Nov 21st – Mice, Dr. Enlander and being ‘Undefeated’
Posted by Cort Johnson The XMRV Buzz -short takes on the world of XMRV – will now be appearing regularly on the “Bringing the Heat” Blog Unbroken – the Louis Zamperini and Laura Hillenbrand Story – no it’s not about XMRV but it is about Lauren Hillenbrand and that means CFS. She is a great spokeswoman for CFS and Louis
ContinueXMRV at the Tipping Point – A Tale of Two Conferences
Posted by Cort Johnson Looking back it was just another week with XMRV; a very intense one for sure, but just another up and down week for the virus that has captured our attention for the last year. Lenny Jason came up to the lunch table at the break and asked what we thought of the presentations. A bit overwhelmed
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Posted by Cort Johnson The XMRV International Workshop is over, the Alter paper was finally published….we seem to be in a kind of lull….what is next for XMRV and ME/CFS? Of course anything could happen at any time (and has) but we do have some clues. First, though, let’s take a look at where we are. The XMRV Studies page
ContinueBatter Up! the XMRV/MLV Debate Continues
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. McClure has been publicly pretty clear that she believes XMRV is not present in ME/CFS. Last week she hinted about an article soon to come out that will explain just how contamination caused XMRV to pop up in ME/CFS patients. Now to her credit she and her Imperial College retrovirologists have put their pen where
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Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Singh An Old Murine Leukemia Virus (MLV) Hand Dr. Singh knows these viruses well and she’s not surprised at the difficulty researchers are having pining them down. She has been studying XMRV for four years and a close relative of it (Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus) for 12 years. ](How lucky we were that a major
ContinueLot’s of Questions at Int. XMRV Work Shop Q&A…and one BIG Answer?
Posted by Cort Johnson No ‘Flip’ Yet: The Workshop did not, as we hoped, turn out to be the place where the research world flipped from worrying about how to find the virus to figuring out what it does and how it does it. According to one report Dr. Ruscetti said he, at least, was turning his attention from diagnosis
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