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Live Chat: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Science and Controversy
by Martin Enserink on 21 September 2011, 3:36 PM
Two years ago, Science published a paper suggesting that a mouse retrovirus called XMRV might be involved in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a debilitating disease with no known cause. The study raised worries that XMRV might be spreading via blood donations. Since then, many other studies have failed to find XMRV in CFS patients, and some have suggested that the 2009 paper was the result of lab contamination.
Where does the science stand today? And how has the long and sometimes bitter debate affected the scientific field and CFS patients? Join us for a live chat on this page at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 22 September, to discuss these and other questions with experts including Michael Busch, a transfusion medicine scientist involved in XMRV research. You can leave your questions in the comment box below before the chat starts.
Michael P. Busch is director of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, California. He has led many studies in transfusion medicine and is a member of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, a government-funded panel investigating whether XMRV is a risk to the blood supply.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/live-chat-chronic-fatigue-syndro.html
by Martin Enserink on 21 September 2011, 3:36 PM
Two years ago, Science published a paper suggesting that a mouse retrovirus called XMRV might be involved in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a debilitating disease with no known cause. The study raised worries that XMRV might be spreading via blood donations. Since then, many other studies have failed to find XMRV in CFS patients, and some have suggested that the 2009 paper was the result of lab contamination.
Where does the science stand today? And how has the long and sometimes bitter debate affected the scientific field and CFS patients? Join us for a live chat on this page at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 22 September, to discuss these and other questions with experts including Michael Busch, a transfusion medicine scientist involved in XMRV research. You can leave your questions in the comment box below before the chat starts.
Michael P. Busch is director of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, California. He has led many studies in transfusion medicine and is a member of the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group, a government-funded panel investigating whether XMRV is a risk to the blood supply.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/live-chat-chronic-fatigue-syndro.html