news archive genetic news - October 11, 2004

October 11, 2004

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-	New therapy for specific form of leukemia Fusion of NUP214 to ABL1 on amplified episomes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
-	DNA Sequence Controls Expression Of Gene Involved In Cancer CA Repeats in the 3'-Untranslated Region of bcl-2 mRNA Mediate Constitutive Decay of bcl-2 mRNA
-	Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine Goes To Discoverers Of How Olfactory System Works Richard Axel, New York, USA, and Linda Buck, Seattle, USA, published the fundamental paper jointly in 1991, in which they described the very large family of about one thousand genes for odorant receptors.
-	Gene from 1918 virus proves key to virulent influenza A single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus
-	Bovine Genome Assembled International Effort Makes Data Freely Available to Scientists Worldwide