Science raises questions about XMRV study – updated
XMRV is running out of legs to stand on. The journal Science, which published a controversial 2009 paper linking the retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has published two follow-up papers undermining the association, as well as an “editorial expression of concern” indicating that the association was probably the result of contamination.
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