Posted by Cort Johnson Just fours days after the editors of Science took it upon themselves to retract the 2008 Science paper, Lo/Alter, the authors of the FDA study at one time championed as proof that a family of XMRV-like viruses was present in ME/CFS, have retracted their PNAS findings as well. In their conclusion to be published next week
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson (My apologies! (Another CFS moment…) The last blog contained a draft on the first story – not the completed version. Thanks for your patience….) When it rains it pours. Events regarding XMRV, Dr. Mikovits and the WPI have come hot and heavy during the last week. WPI’s Civil Lawsuit Against Dr. Mikovits – First some background. Dr.
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson Welcome to the first Phoenix Rising newsletter with our new newsletter using the new Amazon ‘Simple’ Mail Service! CROI! — XMRV showed up in spades in the first major Retrovirology conference of the year, CROI (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections), occurring in Boston. The big news came from a study which suggested XMRV may have
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson A New Center – Much research and discussion now is not centered around XMRV but around a prostate cancer cell line called 22RV1. More than anything else this cell line that is what is causing problems for XMRV. The 22RV1 cell line was created in 1999 in response to a need to study prostate cancer –
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson March 6th The WPI’s response to CROI was “It is interesting that infectious XMRV is still found only in human cells and not in mouse cells or mice. In addition, these data have little to say about XMRV infection in humans.” In an email Dr. Mikovits stated “There is still not one piece of evidence of
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