Sentences with phrase «contaminating other cell lines»

And they are now even contaminating other cell lines (which could perhaps be interpreted as just karma).

Researchers have conducted so many studies with HeLa cells that they've become somewhat of a problem; scientists will periodically suffer the embarrassment of finding that HeLa cells contaminate their other cell lines.

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One of Haugen's researchers discovered that many thyroid cell lines their laboratory stocked and studied were either misidentified or contaminated by other cancer cells.