The ghosts of Henrietta Lacks: cell line misidentification (largely from HeLa cells) contaminates the scientific literature - at least 32,000 papers use contaminated or misidentified cell lines.

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The ghosts of Henrietta Lacks: cell line misidentification (largely from HeLa cells) contaminates the scientific literature - at least 32,000 papers use contaminated or misidentified cell lines.