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Chronic fatigue syndrome scientist finds a temporary home

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December 15, 2011

Judy Mikovits is taking her work on the road. The embattled chronic

fatigue syndrome (CFS) researcher will conduct her arm of a US National

Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) sponsored study on

the condition’s link to certain retroviruses at another US government

laboratory, the scientist overseeing the study told /Nature/ today.

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at

Columbia University in New York, says that Mikovits will team up with

her former mentor Ruscetti at his laboratory at the US National

Cancer Institute (NCI) in Frederick, land. They are one of three

groups testing dozens of blinded blood samples from CFS patients and

healthy controls for XMRV and related retroviruses....

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