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Levy Culture Study Finds No XMRV in CFS/ Science Publishes "Expression of Concern"

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Levy Culture Study Finds No XMRV in CFS/ Science Publishes "Expression of Concern"

Posted by Cort Johnson
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1208542.full.pdf



In the Expression of Concern chief editor of the Science Journal stated that two new articles appearing in their journal 'strongly support the growing view that the association between XMRV and CFS......likely reflects the contamination and research reagents with the virus"



One of the papers will provide evidence suggesting that XMRV is derived from the 22RVI cell-line. The second paper which involved Dr. Jay Levy....and Konstance Knox - who has authored several papers on pathogens in CFS.
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