The National CFIDS Foundation announced that they will be funding two grants totaling $225,000 to fund new research into CFIDS/ME and its association with a leukemic cell phenotype that it has identified in some patients with the disease. A paper written by Kerr also noted abnormal expressed genes “associated with hematologic disease. You can read Karr’s paper at this link: Gene Expression Subtypes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Through bone marrow biopsies and blood samples, researchers say they have a “preliminary indication” that problems exist in the bone marrow of the ME/CFS patients with this problem.
By using the latest in flow cytometry technologies combined with cytogenetic profiles, the NCF has been able to advance its own theories about the disease. This has allowed us to share important data with various top experts worldwide in the leukemia field as well as those engaged in bone marrow research.”
Receiving these research grants are Hany El-Shemy, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry at Cairo University in Egypt. He will be will be evaluating numerous compounds in-vitro against acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines. He likes to use plant-based botanicals to eradicate the acute myeloid leukemia cell lines.
Receiving the other grant is Tsvee Lapidot, PhD, Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. His research interests include the mechanisms of stem cell migration and immune development, the regulation of the bone marrow reservoir of immature and maturing luekocytes as part of host defense and repair during homeostasis and alarm situations and the role of stromal cells, cytokines, chemokines, adhesion molecules and proteolytic enzymes in normal and leukemic human hematopoiesis.
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let us all hope now that this important link brings all of us much closer to a therapy and puts the phyco-babblers back in the closet once and for all and stop the nay-sayers going on about it is all our imaginations…enough is enough with these idiots who have damaged decades of research and cost the lives of so many…if it was not for the persistence of gail kansky we would still be left in the dark ages and also stop the ‘xmrv’ hype once and for all…i only wish i was a wealthy one to donate but just trying to feed myself and get through each day is just a part of survival…if i won the lotto they would be the first group i would fund…if any of you are able, please donate to this cause as 100% of your money goes to further their research into this nightmare…may god bless all of you with this and may he walk beside everyone of you in these troubled times…get well everyone of you and keep god’s faith always sincerely aidan walsh southampton, u.k. p.s. you are all in my prayers each and every day…
Chronic fatigue is such an annoyance. So many people don’t understand it, and simply call people who suffer from it lazy. How wrong is that?