Blood 2004 ((top)) Jun 2026

Perhaps the most prescient papers in Blood 2004 involved the application of DNA microarrays (gene expression profiling). This was the dawn of "cluster analysis" in hematologic malignancies.

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To understand the significance of Blood in 2004, one must contextualize the era. It was a time of "pre-genomic twilight"—the Human Genome Project had been completed in 2003, yet its clinical utility remained largely aspirational. Hematology was dominated by cytotoxic chemotherapy and morphological classification (FAB standards). Perhaps the most prescient papers in Blood 2004