Don’t fall into the cell line misidentification trap. Authenticate! What you don’t know—or what you refuse to acknowledge—will hurt you. Calls for diligence in cell line authentication must be issued ...

For any scientist’s work to have meaning and value, it is imperative that the materials they use, including cell lines, are reliable and are what the are supposed to be. Without this, results may be ...

Imagine you’re studying colon cancer using a colon cell line model. After three painstaking years of research, your first major publication describes several new findings on the molecular pathways in ...