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uBiome Receives Patent for Diagnosing ME?

Discussion in 'ME/CFS research news' started by horizoncfs, Dec 28, 2018.

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  1. horizoncfs

    horizoncfs Established Member

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    Is Ubiome introducing a new biomarker or diagnostic for ME?

    "The patented technology involves diagnosing an endocrine system condition such as chronic fatigue syndrome, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, metabolic disease, obesity, and Type I and II diabetes, and generating a therapy model using biological samples from uBiome’s proprietary database."

    https://www.prweb.com/releases/ubio...endocrine_system_conditions/prweb15995198.htm
     
    horizoncfs, Dec 28, 2018
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    Hoopoe Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Patents are written to cover as many applications as possible. It doesn't mean that uBiome knows something that we don't.
     
    Hoopoe, Dec 28, 2018
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    Patient4Life Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I wonder which criterion they are using. If it is Fukuda, forget it. And, since it says CFS, I bet it is.
     
    Patient4Life, Dec 28, 2018
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    Trish, Dec 28, 2018
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    My reading of this, which may be wrong, is that the thing they are patenting is their database of microbiome data, presumably derived from samples from patients with these conditions.
    Edit: and any tests they develop using the database??
     
    Trish, Dec 28, 2018
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  6. horizoncfs

    horizoncfs Established Member

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    I wonder how they even know? I have used Ubiome multiple times and it has never asked me if I have CFS.
     
    horizoncfs, Dec 28, 2018
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    Hip Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I don't think we can say that Fukuda is inferior to the CCC and ICC.

    The ICC and CCC tend to select ME/CFS patients with more severe impairments (and also select for patients with more psychiatric comorbidities) compared to Fukuda; 1 2 but in some ways that may put the ICC and CCC at a disadvantage, in that they may miss the milder cases.

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    Just because it is patented doesn't mean it works, there are for example hundreds of patents for perpetual motion machines.
     
    wdb, Dec 29, 2018
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