Keeping Your Cell Lines Straight

Jun 03, 2010

A Nature News piece examines the use of DNA fingerprinting technologies to validate the authenticity of cell lines used for research. "Cell-line misidentification has led to mistakes in the literature, misguided research based on those results and millions wasted in grant money," according to Nature.

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