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HeLa Cell Culture - DIC
Interestingly, the aggressive nature of HeLa cells in culture led not only to scientific discoveries, but also to experimental mistakes. HeLa cells can easily invade other cultures during routine lab transfer procedures and had contaminated many other cell lines used in research by the late 1960s. As a result, numerous research papers that were published based on a variety of cultured cell types have subsequently been proven to be HeLa cells and have, therefore, been discounted.
