Researchers: How are you authenticating your non-human cell lines?
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
For human cells, researchers have adopted practices that are currently used for human identification, which are based on the detection of short tandem repeat (STR) markers. For the large volume of research that is performed using non-human cell lines (mouse, hamster, monkey, etc.), there are no STR marker assays that are able to uniquely and unequivocally identify a particular cell line.