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Driving research of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS),
Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), Fibromyalgia and Long COVID.

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OMF’s holiday gift giving guide

OMF’s holiday gift giving guide 🎁

Give the gift of hope this season!

This holiday season, make sure your holiday gifts give back to the causes you care about.

We encourage you to check out all the ways you can support OMF as you do your shopping.  Support research while you shop on Amazon, eBay and more! 

OMF has put together your all-inclusive guide to philanthropic gift-giving that helps accelerate research and gives hope to millions affected by ME/CFS and related multisystem chronic, complex diseases.

Give back to OMF while shopping on Amazon

If you’re doing holiday shopping on Amazon this year, you can use smile.amazon and select Open Medicine Foundation as the nonprofit you want to support! When you do, part of the proceeds from your purchases will be donated to OMF.

AmazonSmile is also now available in the Amazon shopping app on iOS and Android mobile phones.

Simply follow these instructions to turn on AmazonSmile in your mobile app to support OMF while you shop:

1: Open the Amazon Shopping app on your device

2: Go into the main menu of the Amazon Shopping app and tap into ‘Settings’

3: Tap ‘AmazonSmile’ and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the processYou can also select OMF as your beneficiary via your desktop browser by following this link. 

Shop through iGive.com and gift hope to people with ME/CFS

iGive.com is an Internet company that harnesses the economic power of individuals to benefit their chosen charities and communities. iGive has over 2,100 participating stores, including many internationally-known brands such as Banana Republic, PETCO, Apple and Macy’s.

When you shop through this link, OMF will receive 5-20% of the purchase amount, depending on the store and item bought.

Give a holiday card that supports our cause

OMF is a registered charity with Cards for Causes. When you order holiday cards, you can designate OMF as a beneficiary of your order and share your commitment with others.

*Please note, the minimum order is 25 cards, and cards must be ordered in multiples of 25. If you enter an amount other than a multiple of 25, the system will automatically adjust your order to the next higher multiple of 25.

Use the Benefit App when shopping online at major retailers like Walmart and Target

When you pay with the Benefit app, you can contribute 2-20% of your everyday transactions to fund groundbreaking research into ME/CFS and related diseases. Find out more and download the app here.

Benefit is free and an accepted form of payment at hundreds of major retailers in the U.S., such as Target, Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, CVS, and many more. It’s a convenient and impactful way to help fund groundbreaking research!

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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.
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.
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.
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.