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The ghosts of HeLa: How cell line misidentification contaminates the scientific literature

While problems with cell line misidentification have been known for decades, an unknown number of published papers remains in circulation reporting on the wrong cells without warning or correction. Here we attempt to make a conservative estimate of this ‘contaminated’ literature. We found 32,755 art...

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Autores principales: Horbach, Serge P. J. M., Halffman, Willem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29023500
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186281