CELL LINE SERVICES
Cross-contamination and misidentification of cell lines are unfortunately very common within the research community. Many contaminated cell lines were overgrown by the contaminating cell line during establishment and so authentic stocks probably do not exist; in those cases all work has been performed on the
The presence of mycoplasma in cell cultures directly impacts your work. Mycoplasma contamination in cell culture is wide-spread and difficult to notice. Usually there is an absence of visible morphological changes but the invisible effects on the cell cultures are what