Prostate Cancer Research Centre, UCL, London, U.K. (E-mail,
Cytotechnology. 2002 Jul;39(2):69-74. doi: 10.1023/A:1022908930937.
Hundreds of misleading reports are published every year containing data on human cancer cell lines that are derived from some other species, tissue or individual to that claimed. In consequence, millions of dollars provided for cancer research are being spent on the production of misleading data. This review describes how cross-contamination occurs, catalogues the use of false cell lines in leading biomedical journals, and suggests ways to resolve the problem.
每年都有数百篇误导性报告发表,其中包含的数据来自声称的物种、组织或个体以外的人类癌细胞系。因此,用于癌症研究的数百万美元都被用于产生误导性数据。本文描述了交叉污染是如何发生的,列出了在主要生物医学期刊中使用虚假细胞系的情况,并提出了解决问题的方法。