NOVA1 and cancer: While this has shed new light on telomerase splicing, the process of splicing and the trans-acting RNA binding proteins that dictate splicing outcomes is relatively understudied due to the low abundance of hTERT. In this report, we build upon the importance of the cis element DR8 in intron 8 and the splicing factor, NOVA1 in telomerase regulation with the goal of eventually finding a means to target hTERT splicing to promote durable cancer remissions.