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Just three days left! Help Sustain Hope Become a Monthly Donor to Secure Another $10k Donation In honor of OMF’s 10th Year Anniversary, an anonymous donor …

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New Facebook fundraising tools available for OMF Canada! Did you know you can now create a Facebook fundraiser for OMF Canada? Click this link to set …

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A Decade of Hope: OMF Celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary!

A Decade of Hope: OMF Celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary in 2022! Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) is turning 10 years old! To commemorate a decade of …

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Continuing the Research: New Changes Announced for OMF

Continuing the Research:New Changes for OMF Announced In an effort to continue the tremendous legacy of OMF’s Late Chief Medical Officer, Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, …

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Silent Auction to Benefit OMF!

Michelle Kaysen, Person with ME/CFS & Auction Organizer, Shares her Story ​

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Remembering Ron & 2021 Year in Review

Thank you for being a part of our Open Medicine Foundation Canada family. As we reflect on the achievements of the past year, I would …

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Remembering Ron

Remembering Ron: A Champion of ME/CFS Research, and Friend to All In Dr. Tompkins’ role as OMF’s Chief Medical Officer, he facilitated communication between the …

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A Message From Ron Davis, PhD: “Remembering my Friend, Ron Tompkins”

From the Desk of Ronald W. Davis, PhDChair, OMF Scientific Advisory BoardDirector, ME/CFS Stanford Collaborative Research Remembering my Friend, Ron Tompkins I am greatly saddened …

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Announcing The Ronald G. Tompkins Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration at the Harvard Affiliated Hospitals

To honor the memory of Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD, we have a special announcement to share with the community. We have renamed the OMF …

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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.
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.
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.
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.