““- It’s evidence that there’s biological stuff involved … that it’s not imagined,” said Steven Schutzer, the lead researcher. Schutzer, a UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School physician and scientist who specializes in Lyme disease research, worked with colleagues at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington. Together they zeroed in on the spinal fluid — a “liquid window to the brain,” as Schutzer calls it — to distinguish biological differences between Lyme disease and chronic fatigue syndrome. The work did just that, using an advanced mass spectrometer technique to identify hundreds of proteins unique to each condition and sort out protein differences between Lyme, chronic fatigue and a group of healthy test subjects.”

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