 putting bad cells without harming any good cells. With this knowledge and observation and putting his electrical engineering background to use, Rive began developing specialized devices to target unique frequencies on specific organisms. This work generated much fanfare and media attention in its early stages. Newspapers in his native San Diego, Los Angeles and beyond frequently featured his inventions and experiments on their front pages. And who could blame them? Rive's work seemed like it could change the world of medicine forever. Rive began recalibrating his research to find the cancer virus, which he believed was the secret to curing cancer. In 1932, he inadvertently stumbled upon a morphed cancer culture that had been sitting in a test tube near one of his electromagnetic current devices. It had been left there for 24 hours by accident. But the results of its proximity to the device prompted him to repeat the experiment, this time on purpose. Over and over again.