Open AccessCurbing rampant cross-contamination and misidentification of cell lines
Author(s) -
Roland M. Nardone
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
biotechniques/biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/000112925
Subject(s) - wasting , biology , contamination , environmental ethics , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , philosophy , biochemistry
A son's challenge started an emeritus professor of biology on a three-year odyssey to get biological researchers to correct a decades-long problem with cross-contaminated and misidentified cell lines. These errors may account for more than 15% of mammalian cultures, wasting resources and undermining the integrity of research.