GBSI's Cell Authentication Survey Shows Little Progress in a Decade
Monday, October 12, 2015 - 15:20
in Health & Medicine
A new survey of almost 450 biomedical researchers from every major stakeholder group (e.g., academia, industry) conducted by the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) shows little has changed in cell line authentication and culture practices in the past decade--practices that contribute to irreproducible research, and delays and increased costs of drug discovery. The results are detailed in The culture of cell culture practices and authentication--Results from a 2015 Survey, by Leonard P. Freedman, Ph.D., lead author, published today in the open access journal BioTechniques.