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Cancer Studies Hobbled by Contaminated Cell Lines
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— Contaminated cell lines undermine cancer research. In hundreds of documented cases that undermine a broad swath of research, cancer samples that were supposed to be one type of tumor have turned out to be another.
Shirley Wang
Health and Science Reporter and In the Lab Columnist
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Wall Street Journal
@ShirleySWangWSJ
Amy Dockser Marcus's compelling piece on how contamination in cancer research leads to retraction.
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April 23, 2012
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