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December 20, 2004

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-	Peptide Vaccine Can Produce Complete Remission in Myeloid Leukemia Patients Vaccine made from the PR1 peptide, a small part of a protein found on the inside of leukemia cells.
-	Stem cells of limited use for cardiac muscle repair Transplanted hematopoietic stem cells demonstrate impaired sarcoglycan expression after engraftment into cardiac and skeletal muscle
-	Research Shows Existing Diabetes Drugs May Kill Multiple Myeloma Human multiple myeloma cells express peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and undergo apoptosis upon exposure to PPARgamma ligands.
-	Researchers discover new gene in colon cancer 15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase, a COX-2 oncogene antagonist, is a TGF-{beta}-induced suppressor of human gastrointestinal cancers.
-	Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results Gene Vaccination to Bias the Immune Response to Amyloid-{beta} Peptide as Therapy for Alzheimer Disease
-	Important Discovery of Gene Involved in Breast and Prostate Cancer SEQUENOM's MassARRAY(R) System Identifies Variations in ICAM Genes Impacting the Most Common Cancers in Women and Men
-	Protein Delivered Via Genetically Engineered Virus Slowed Glioblasoma Multiforme Growth Inflammatory and anti-glioma effects of an adenovirus expressing human soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (hsFlt3L)