Cell contamination confunds decades of cancer research

In the field of thyroid cancer, 58­-year­-old Kenneth Ain is a star. … In June 2007, all that changed. Ain attended the annual Endocrine Society meeting in Toronto, where Bryan Haugen, head of the endocrinology division at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Ain that several of his most popular cell lines were not actually thyroid cancer. 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.

Read full, original article: The Dirty Little Secret of Cancer Research

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