SLC4A1 and acute myeloid leukemia: An interesting study describes regulation of AE1 expression by the microRNA, miR-24 (Wu et al., 2010), which is critical for the development of normal hematopoietic progenitors, is highly expressed in primary AML, regulates hematopoietic cell survival (Nguyen et al., 2013), and is down-regulated during erythroid differentiation (Georgantas et al., 2007).