Erroneous link between prostate cancer and retrovirus from mice confirmed: Contamination of XMRV in cancer tissue sample
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
A once-promising discovery linking prostate cancer to an obscure retrovirus derived from mice was the result of an inadvertent laboratory contamination, a forensic analysis of tissue samples and lab experiments -- some dating back nearly a decade -- has confirmed.