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Countless research projects around the world into cancer and other major diseases are producing bogus or misleading results because investigators are studying the wrong type of cell... |
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| Impostor Cells are wrecking Medical Research (October 2003) |
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The mistakes arise when fast-growing "rogue cells" contaminate cell cultures and swamp the correct cells. A team's work on prostate cancer, for example, might turn out to be worthless because cells researchers thought were prostate cancer cells turn out to be cervical cancer cells. Although the danger has been known about for decades, most researchers still fail to check the identity of the cells they are working with. And several new types of rogue cell are emerging, New Scientist has learned. Warnings of the potential scale of the problem were issued this week at a conference in Warwick organised by the UK's Health Protection Agency. Precise figures are hard to come by because researchers are either unaware that they have worked with the wrong cells, or try to cover it up... |
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