Olivia and Isabella: the identical twins who helped unravel secrets of leukaemia

British scientists have discovered cells that are the source of the most common form of childhood leukaemia after studying twin sisters from Kent, one of whom fell ill with the disease.

The achievement, a world first, came after doctors treating four-year-old Olivia Murphy from Bromley learned that her identical twin, Isabella, had not developed the illness.

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