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ME/CFS Research is soaring!

#TripleTuesdayOMFCA Spotlight – Chris Armstrong, PhD Every donation today through December 3 will be tripled!   I’m getting in touch with you today to share my personal perspective on why your support is so vital to OMF Canada’s (OMFCA) work. Donations from community members like you allow OMFCA to fund critical research around the globe […]

Share Your Story for #TripleTuesdayOMFCanada

Fundraise for OMF Canada during our Triple Giving Tuesday OMF Canada campaign Share your story with friends and family and invite them to make a donation in support of groundbreaking ME/CFS research. Every donation they make any day of the week between now and International Giving Tuesday on December 3, 2019 will be triple matched. […]

ME/CFS Fact Sheets

  ME/CFS Fact Sheets by Faith Newton, EdD, Delaware State University.  The following documents provide information on ME/CFS in the school environment for parents, educators, and nurses. Resource for Parents, Educators & School Nurses: Gives an overview of the illness and symptoms. Educational Implications: Describes how ME/CFS may manifest in the classroom. Classroom Accommodations: Shares practical ways to accommodate difficulties ME/CFS patients […]

Linda Tannenbaum & Llewellyn King Interviewed on Joe Madison

OMF CA Founder & President Linda Tannenbaum and activist, reporter, and OMF CA friend Llewellyn King were interviewed on Joe Madison – “The Black Eagle” SiriusXM talk show on Urban View Channel 126! Watch it now:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C20MwiYfSGg  In the interview, Linda and Llewellyn discuss the devastating impact of ME/CFS and the urgent need for increased […]

Current OMF Funded Research

Current Funded Research  ME/CFS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER AT STANFORD OMF is continuing to fund the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford. These are the projects currently underway: T cells and immunology Michael Sikora, in collaboration with Mark Davis, PhD, Lars Steinmetz, PhD, and Ron Davis, PhD, at Stanford University, will examine the role of T […]

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Microvesicles and viral sequencing
Microvesicles are a type of extracellular vesicle that is released from the cell membrane. Vesicles are small, fluid-filled sacs or vacuoles within the body. Sequencing is a technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA (or viral) molecule.
NMR Metabolomics
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is an instrument/tool used to perform metabolic studies, metabolic profiling, and metabolomics in biofluids and tissues for more than 40 years using magnetic fields. There is a very close connection between metabolic measurements and NMR. This connection has flourished because of NMR’s many unique strengths for characterizing complex mixtures’ chemical composition.
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins, which are large, complex molecules that are required for structure, function, and regulation of the human body's tissues and organs.
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-molecules and that occur in healthy individuals and are referred to as natural antibodies or autoantibodies.
Extracellular DNA for viral reactivation and Mitochondrial DNA
exDNA (extracellular DNA), exDNA is often secreted actively and is used to perform several tasks, thereby offering an attractive target or tool for biotechnological, medical, environmental, and general microbiological applications. Viruses are intracellular parasites that rely to a significant extent on the host cell for replication. Viral reactivation occurs when an active replication of the viral genome results in a lytic (degradation of the cell) infection characterized by the release of new progeny (descendant) virus particles.
Immune cell profiling
The immune system has many important regulatory roles in disease development and progression. Given the emergence of effective immune therapies, reliable predictors of response are needed. Immune cell profiling determines response by evaluating immune cell populations from treated and untreated samples. For our purposes, we will evaluate the white blood cell response to the viral infection using a process called “Cytof.”
Leukocyte Genomics
A leukocyte is a colorless cell circulating in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease. A genome is all genetic material of an organism. Genomics is a biology field focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. Therefore, leukocyte genomics is the study of all genetic material of leukocytes.
Metabolomics
Metabolomics is a way to study metabolism – that is, through measuring amounts of the metabolites (small molecules) produced by our bodies as we convert food into energy and other molecules that our cells need to survive. Metabolomics technology is ‘large-scale,’ meaning that several thousand metabolites can be measured from a single sample of e.g., blood or urine.
Micro RNA
Cells use Micro RNA to control whether a particular gene is making too much, too little or the normal amount of its protein at a particular time.