Trial By Error: A Reuters Update
…about the since-disproved possibility that ME/CFS was associated with a mouse retrovirus called XMRV. The first PACE trial results were published during that time, and I began to read analyses…
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HeLa RNA is everywhere
…such contamination when it previously went unnoticed. High profile examples of nucleic acid contamination include the retrovirus XMRV associated with chronic fatigue syndrome, and a virus believed to cause hepatitis…
Trial By Error: Happy Tenth Anniversary, PACE Trial!
…into chronic fatigue syndrome, the then-standard name for the illness now referred to as ME/CFS by US government agencies. The mouse retrovirus, XMRV, turned out to be a lab contaminant….
Trial By Error: Jennie Spotila Tracks Down–and Busts–an Old Tale About “Death Threats” from Patients
…Serrano who has been researching the CFS/XMRV issue for his local paper, News Sun, distributed in the Wisconsin/Illinois region. He phoned to warn me that he had found out that…
Trial By Error: My 2018 Post on Andrew Lloyd’s Memory Lapses, Revisited
…chronic fatigue syndrome: not over yet.” The editorial mentioned the failure of the XMRV retrovirus hypothesis and of research into various biomedical treatments. It also noted that “there is solid…
Earth’s virology course
…public eye, namely XMRV and influenza H5N1. Each lecture in my virology course was recorded as a videocast and is available at the course website, at iTunes University, or on…