to Hunt CFS Viruses
by Kate Benson/CureTalk
In the end, cutting edge technology may be the game-changer in chronic
fatigue syndrome =96 a condition that strikes an estimated 1-4 million
patients in the United States.
Viral involvement and immune system abnormalities have long been
suspected as contributing or causing the disease. But for many
reasons, including the multiple definitions used, delays in diagnosis
and small sample size, study results have been mixed.
Now however, researchers have powerful state-of-the art tools at their
disposal, and the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia
University stands at the nexus.
=93We have the best tools to do the work and the funding required to
pursue it,=94 said center director Dr. Ian Lipkin, =93and will bring the
very best possible minds to the problem irrespective of institution.
We will be taking a broad, open-minded approach to the problem.=94
The full article can be found here:
http://trialx.com/curetalk/2011/11/dr-ian-lipkin-and-dr-mady-hornig-use-dee=
p-sequencing-and-proteomics-to-hunt-cfs-viruses/
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