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ARTICLE | Targets & Mechanisms

Square one in CFS

September 29, 2011 7:00 AM UTC

The Chronic Fatigue Initiative is moving on to new approaches to identify the true cause of chronic fatigue syndrome after a consortium of American researchers failed to reproduce a 2009 study linking CFS to a virus called XMRV.1

The Chronic Fatigue Initiative (CFI), a venture philanthropy organization, announced plans last week to fund epidemiological studies of CFS, build a biological database of tissues from subjects with CFS and generate hypotheses to stimulate academic research into the molecular mechanisms of the condition...