This guest post on the Retraction Watch website is a follow-up to "Hundreds of researchers are using the wrong cells. That’s a major problem"[1] by Amanda Capes

This guest post on the Retraction Watch website is a follow-up to "Hundreds of researchers are using the wrong cells. That’s a major problem"[1] by Amanda Capes-Davis, chair of the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC). Previous submissions to Hacker News have mentioned that misidentifying human cell samples used in medical research can skew research results and make them unreliable. [1] http://retractionwatch.com/2015/12/08/hela-is-the-tip-of-the-contamination-iceberg-guest-post-from-cell-culture-scientist/ http://retractionwatch.com/2015/12/08/hela-is-the-tip-of-the...