I found this NIH project information database, it's not searchable at the time of writing but when it was it listed these two projects for XMRV:
THE RELATIONSHIP OF XMRV TO FUNCTIONAL STATUS AND CO-INFECTIONS IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (Maureen Hanson, Cornell)
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7977530&icde=4356584
THE ROLE OF XMRV, A NEWLY DISCOVERED HUMAN RETROVIRUS, IN CANCER PATHOGENESIS (Ila Singh, Utah)
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7866444&icde=4356584
The projects start in June 2010 and March 2010 respectively, and are still currently listed in the database so are presumably ongoing. The CFS study starting June 2010 would seem well-timed to follow up on Dr Alter's study confirming the association, which appears to have originally been completed in May.
I don't know whether any of this is news, I did post it elsewhere a few weeks ago, but hopefully it's useful to someone. It seems to me to be further evidence that an XMRV-CFS association has been confirmed and that ongoing work is taking place to investigate the details of that association - the Cornell project, for example, seems to be investigating, in particular, the association between exercise intolerance and viral expression:
Which sounds like great news, but as I say, further evidence that much is already known or at least strongly suspected, and yet very little information about all this is being communicated to the patient community or indeed to the world in general...not yet at least...
THE RELATIONSHIP OF XMRV TO FUNCTIONAL STATUS AND CO-INFECTIONS IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (Maureen Hanson, Cornell)
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7977530&icde=4356584
THE ROLE OF XMRV, A NEWLY DISCOVERED HUMAN RETROVIRUS, IN CANCER PATHOGENESIS (Ila Singh, Utah)
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=7866444&icde=4356584
The projects start in June 2010 and March 2010 respectively, and are still currently listed in the database so are presumably ongoing. The CFS study starting June 2010 would seem well-timed to follow up on Dr Alter's study confirming the association, which appears to have originally been completed in May.
I don't know whether any of this is news, I did post it elsewhere a few weeks ago, but hopefully it's useful to someone. It seems to me to be further evidence that an XMRV-CFS association has been confirmed and that ongoing work is taking place to investigate the details of that association - the Cornell project, for example, seems to be investigating, in particular, the association between exercise intolerance and viral expression:
We will determine whether the level of health and exercise intolerance in chronic fatigue syndrome is related to particular virus variants, expression of viral proteins, and/or dysfunction of the immune system.
Which sounds like great news, but as I say, further evidence that much is already known or at least strongly suspected, and yet very little information about all this is being communicated to the patient community or indeed to the world in general...not yet at least...