Synthetic living materials in cancer biology

SR Peyton, LW Chow, SD Finley, ANF Versypt… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Living materials, which are made either of or by living cells, or are synthetic materials with
programmable elements catered to cells, are environmentally responsive and can self …

Fetal bovine serum (FBS): past–present–future

J Van der Valk, K Bieback, C Buta, B Cochrane… - ALTEX-Alternatives to …, 2018 - altex.org
The supplementation of culture medium with fetal bovine serum (FBS, also referred to as
“fetal calf serum”) is still common practice in cell culture applications. Due to a number of …

The ghosts of HeLa: How cell line misidentification contaminates the scientific literature

SPJM Horbach, W Halffman - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
While problems with cell line misidentification have been known for decades, an unknown
number of published papers remains in circulation reporting on the wrong cells without …

Improving transparency and scientific rigor in academic publishing

EM Prager, KE Chambers, JL Plotkin… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in basic and clinical research is slowed when researchers fail to provide a
complete and accurate report of how a study was designed, executed, and the results …

Genetic characterization of rat hepatic stellate cell line HSC-T6 for in vitro cell line authentication

I Nanda, C Steinlein, T Haaf, EM Buhl, DG Grimm… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immortalized hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) established from mouse, rat, and humans are
valuable in vitro models for the biomedical investigation of liver biology. These cell lines are …

Achieving reproducibility and closed-loop automation in biological experimentation with an IoT-enabled lab of the future

B Miles, PL Lee - SLAS TECHNOLOGY: Translating Life …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
A robotic cloud laboratory driven by a state-of-the-art unified laboratory operating system
integrates automated hardware, humans, and sensors. This lab of the future system enables …

Interlaboratory study to validate a STR profiling method for intraspecies identification of mouse cell lines

JL Almeida, A Dakic, K Kindig, M Kone, DLD Letham… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The Consortium for Mouse Cell Line Authentication was formed to validate Short Tandem
Repeat (STR) markers for intraspecies identification of mouse cell lines. The STR profiling …

Semi-automated fact-checking of nucleotide sequence reagents in biomedical research publications: The Seek & Blastn tool

C Labbé, N Grima, T Gautier, B Favier, JA Byrne - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide sequence reagents are verifiable experimental reagents in biomedical
publications, because their sequence identities can be independently verified and …

Striking similarities between publications from China describing single gene knockdown experiments in human cancer cell lines

JA Byrne, C Labbé - Scientometrics, 2017 - Springer
Comparing 5 publications from China that described knockdowns of the human TPD52L2
gene in human cancer cell lines identified unexpected similarities between these …

Characterization of DoTc2 4510—Identifying HPV16 Presence in a Cervical Carcinoma Cell Line Previously Considered to Be HPV-Negative

N Vučković, K Hoppe-Seyler, AB Riemer - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly cancers for women worldwide.
Its incidence is, in virtually all cases, causally tied to a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection …