The ghosts of HeLa
Some 30,000 biomedical publications report on misidentified cells
16-Oct-2017 -
For decades, immortal cells such as the famous HeLa cells have been contaminating other cell cultures in the lab. As a result, scientific studies about certain cells are actually discussing other cells. Willem Halffman and Serge Horbach, researchers at Radboud University, found more than 30,000 ...
biomedicine
cell biology
cell cultures
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