Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA.
In 1990, the Philadelphia chromosome was recognized as the sole cause of a deadly blo.
It would take doctors and researchers around the world more than three decades to unravel the implications of this landmark discovery.
That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern Cancer research-- the Philadelphia chromosome.
Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA