http://www.newser.com/story/214006/...ajor-disease-we-dont-know-anything-about.html
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Excerpt:
Scientist Tackles 'Last Major Disease We Don’t Know Anything About'
WHITNEY DAFOE NO LONGER WALKS, TALKS, OR EATS, AND IS FED INTRAVENOUSLY
By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Newser Staff
(NEWSER) – Whitney Dafoe packed a lot in his first quarter-century of life. The son of renowned scientist Ronald Davis, the head of the Genome Technology Center at Stanford University, was an award-winning photographer who traveled the world and worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign. Now 31 and diagnosed with systemic exertion intolerance disease, aka chronic fatigue syndrome, he no longer walks, talks, or eats—instead sustained by a feeding tube, reports the Washington Post. Davis, who is 74, hopes to tap Stanford's technology to study the disease, which some still don't take seriously, in unprecedented detail. Denied funding by the NIH, he's recruited three Nobel laureates and raised more than $1 million for his project, while patients themselves are running crowdfunding campaigns to help this and other studies, reports the Atlantic...