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LAST CHANCE to TRIPLE your gift in 2023! Support a future of clinical trials!

Your donation will be triple matched up to $500,000.

Today, November 30, 2023, marks the LAST DAY of our Triple Giving November campaign and the future has never looked brighter! The path forward is paved with clinical trials aimed at finding the most effective treatments fast. However, the success of these clinical trials hinges on the collective support from individuals like you.

 

Don’t miss out on the chance to have your donation tripled! Your contribution will go three times as far in fueling our goal of 5-7 clinical trials over the next few years. Our vision is to urgently get people better fast. It’s time to reduce the suffering and symptom severity faced by people with ME/CFS and related diseases.  We need your help to make it a reality.

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Why Your Support is Crucial:

  • Tripled Impact: Every dollar you donate today will be tripled, amplifying your contribution towards a cause that holds promise for better days ahead.
  • Clinical Trials: The core of our upcoming endeavors comprises of 5-7 clinical trials. These trials are our best shot at understanding and treating ME/CFS more effectively, to help alleviate the crippling symptoms experienced by many.
  • Unveiling the Unknown: With each clinical trial, we inch closer to unveiling the mysteries surrounding ME/CFS and Long COVID, setting a precedent for groundbreaking discoveries.

 

Here’s What Your Support Fuels:

  • Robust Research: Ensuring rigorous research that adheres to the highest scientific standards.
  • Expertise and Innovation: Engaging the brightest minds in the field to collaborate and pioneer innovative treatment strategies.
  • Medical Education: Enhancing the knowledge and understanding of ME/CFS within the medical community, paving the way for improved patient care and innovative therapeutic approaches.
  • Community Engagement: Fostering a community where every voice is heard, every story is valued, and every donation propels us forward.

 

Your support has always been our stronghold, enabling us to venture into new realms of scientific inquiry. As we gear up to embark on these clinical trials, your generosity is the beacon that lights our way.

As the Triple Giving November campaign ends, let’s seize this moment to rally together and usher in a new era of hope and healing.

Thank you for your unwavering support. Together, we can redefine the future for countless individuals awaiting relief.

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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.