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Check twitter now tweets from conference

Jemal

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Thanks for the tip, Villagelife.

http://twitter.com/#!/spring_flower21

Maureen Hanson: Even though the #XMRV sequences may be wrong, there still may be a virus in these patients that we need to identify


http://twitter.com/#!/sciencecohen

Cornell's Maureen Hanson reported at #IACFS/ME conf that they found 0 PCR+ #CFS for #XMRV when they only did single round PCR

Nancy Kliimas at #CFS meeting announces XMRV results and says "I'm still going to wait to see the Lipkin study to say anything definitive."
(day old tweet and not related to the conference, but still interesting)

Coffin says #XMRV and #CFS was a 3 legged stool: Antibodies, PCR and infectious virus. He didn't say but showed that none of legs now exist

Dr. Judy Mikovits shows data that "contaminated" #XMRV samples from Lombardi et al. have virus that's not XMRV


http://twitter.com/#!/DeBortgjemte

Graham Simmons: Infectious causes probable in CFS .So its probably wise that CFS patients dont donate blood.

Mikovits: VIPdx lab will not continue to offer XMRV-testing because it haven't been shown to be reproducible in BloodWorkingGroup

Coffin: The first HIV study had large holes - worse than #XMRV study but #HIV was largely "readily reproduced" afterwards
 

justy

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At #IACFS/ME meeting, Judy Mikovits shows data that "contaminated" #XMRV samples from Lombardi et al. have virus that's not XMRV
1 minute ago
 

Daffodil

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Mikovits showed evidence that contaminated samples found by Silverman not contamo with VP62 neo gene in earlier samples at WPI
 

Jemal

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This is pretty significant as well:

Mikovits: VIPdx lab will not continue to offer XMRV-testing because it haven't been shown to be reproducible in BloodWorkingGroup
 

Sasha

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I'm tweeting at CortJohnson - I've done a bunch of them.....

Here's the link to Cort's tweets.

Thanks for covering this, Cort! I've been looking for info from the conference all day but probably in the wrong places. There's certainly some interesting stuff going on.
 

Enid

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Thanks again Jemal - Dr Mikovits is intrepid indeed - in fact blooming marvellous amongst the nay sayers about her.
 

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is there anything else in the conference from montoya or from dr lerner or dr chia on there cfs work, even stuff on nk dysfunction etc?

cheers!!!