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Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, a national nonprofit organization |
 WALTHAM, Mass., April 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nonprofit has collected 1,000 blood and data samples from MS sufferers and controls across the U.S.; Samples will be used in dozens of individual research studies this year
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, a national nonprofit organization, today announced that they have completed their initial drive to collect one thousand blood and data samples to build the largest openly accessible, multi-disciplinary repository ever assembled for use in Multiple Sclerosis (MS: 50.39, +3.01, +6.35%) research.
"This is a major milestone for the Accelerated Cure Project", says Art Mellor, founder of the Accelerated Cure Project. "Limited sample size is one of the most frequently cited reasons for inconclusive results in MS research. Our repository provides researchers with immediate access to a far greater number of samples than most scientists could collect themselves."
In addition, the repository will provide a common population of samples useful for a wide variety of different studies, which will enable results from different research perspectives to be easily combined and correlated. The repository contains various types of samples and data that can support scientists working in many fields - genetics, nutrition, virology, and more. Researchers gaining access to the repository must return their results to the database to be shared with other researchers; this will allow cross-correlation of their results with all other studies performed using the same samples.
Subjects enrolled in the repository will be followed over time to allow new samples to be taken and to record important changes in clinical status. Studying the same sample population over time, and pooling knowledge in a central database, is a major step toward understanding what causes MS, thereby accelerating a cure.
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MS is thought to be an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). |
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| Team MS supporter , Morgan Broadhead was serverly injured while qualifing at Jennings ,Fl. Morgan was flown to Salt Lake to continue with his rehap. He is working hard and we hope to see him on the road again soon. He has a long road ahead and I know that your thoughts are helping him through this. |
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