The Challenges of Cell Culture
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...for authentication and contamination) and cell lines can become cross contaminated and are invariably much...still used today to test for HeLa contamination.
HeLa contamination is still a problem today. It is now...cell lines suffer from contamination with HeLa being the most frequent contaminant, closely followed by ...different researchers are free of contamination and match their original description. The oldest, largest...Unreproducible results are rife.
Misidentified or cross-contaminated cells have been known about since 1966 when ...the majority in those days) were in fact all contaminated with HeLa cells, the first immortalized human...wasted in basic oncological research due to contamination are in the tens or hundreds of millions, let...