Carcinogenesis, Vol. 23, No. 2, 371,
February 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
False cell lines
University College London London UK J.Masters@ucl.ac.uk
Dear Editor
I would like to direct your interest and that of your readers to the increasing and frequently neglected problem concerning the contamination of cell lines with cells derived from another species or individual. Cross-contamination can happen in any tissue culture laboratory as a result of defective technique or mislabelling, when two cell lines get mixed (1).
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