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  • Summary of XMRV Research Studies

    XMRV studies done in Germany, Ireland, UK, Japan and the USA.

  • Viral Immune Pathology Diagnostics Introduces New Test for XMRV Patients and Clinicians -Net proceeds from test dedicated to further WPI research-

    The Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) has recently published a research study revealing the prevalence of XMRV in patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME/CFS or what has most recently been called, X associated neuro-immune disease, (XAND). In response to an overwhelming request for a diagnostic test for XMRV, WPI has temporarily agreed to allow Viral Immune Pathology Diagnostics (VIP Dx) to begin offering the identical tests that have been extensively validated using the same technology developed by Drs. Lombardi and Mikovits and their colleagues as reported in Science.

  • Science Express: Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Vincent C. Lombardi,1* Francis W. Ruscetti,2* Jaydip Das Gupta,3 Max A. Pfost,1 Kathryn S. Hagen,1 Daniel L. Peterson,1 Sandra K. Ruscetti,4 Rachel K. Bagni,5 Cari Petrow-Sadowski,6 Bert Gold,2 Michael Dean,2 Robert H. Silverman,3 Judy A. Mikovits1† 1Whittemore Peterson Institute, Reno, NV 89557, USA. 2Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, National Cancer Institute- Frederick, Frederick, MD 21701, USA. 3Department of Cancer Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. 4Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21701, USA. 5Advanced Technology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21701, USA. 6Basic Research Program, Scientific Applications International Corporation, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.

  • Consortium of Researchers Discover Retroviral Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Scientists have discovered a potential retroviral link to chronic fatigue syndrome, known as CFS, a debilitating disease that affects millions of people in the United States. Researchers from the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI), located at the University of Nevada, Reno, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Cleveland Clinic, report this finding online Oct. 8, 2009, issue of Science.

  • Whittemore Peterson Institute Scientists Discover Significant link between XMRV and ME/CFS

    RENO, NV – A recently identified retrovirus called XMRV has been linked to a debilitating neuroimmune disease that affects more than one million people in the United States. Scientists from the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI), located at the University of Nevada, Reno, and their collaborators from the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic, have discovered a retroviral link to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). They recently published their groundbreaking findings in the journal, Science, one of the world’s leading journals of original scientific research, global news and commentary. The paper, entitled “Detection of Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in the Blood Cells of CFS Patients,” is a major breakthrough in understanding the origins of this disease.

  • Facts about the XMRV virus in ME/CFS with links

    All the facts with links of the new XMRV virus found in ME/CFS patients.

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