Janet Rowley is being honored for her groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of how chromosomes can exchange genetic material, resulting in the uncontrolled growth of cells that characterizes cancer. She discovered the first such "translocation" in early 1972, while sorting through photographs of chromosomes from a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia. In this case, she observed that chromosome 8 appeared to trade genetic material with chromosome 21; part of 21 had broken off and moved to chromosome 8, and part of 8 had moved to 21.
Later that same year, she discovered that another defect linked to chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), known as the Philadelphia chromosome, also resulted from a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22. http://cmlsupport.blogspot.com/2005/03/elizabeth-blackburn-and-janet-rowley.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/3iazvD/6WnJAA/xGEGAA/8zSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
