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Amanda Capes-Davis

Children's Medical Research Institute
Verified email at cmri.org.au
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Check your cultures! A list of cross‐contaminated or misidentified cell lines

A CapesDavis, G Theodosopoulos… - … journal of cancer, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous cell lines consist of cultured cells derived from a specific donor and tissue of
origin that have acquired the ability to proliferate indefinitely. These cell lines are well‐…

Match criteria for human cell line authentication: where do we draw the line?

A CapesDavis, YA Reid, MC Kline… - … journal of cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous human cell lines have been used extensively as models for biomedical research.
In working with these cell lines, researchers are often unaware of the risk of cross‐…

[HTML][HTML] Recommendation of short tandem repeat profiling for authenticating human cell lines, stem cells, and tissues

R Barallon, SR Bauer, J Butler, A Capes-Davis… - In Vitro Cellular & …, 2010 - Springer
Cell misidentification and cross-contamination have plagued biomedical research for as
long as cells have been employed as research tools. Examples of misidentified cell lines …

Cell line authentication: a necessity for reproducible biomedical research

…, NE Fusenig, S Heck, WG Dirks, A CapesDavis… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
… cell lines, Korch and Capes-Davis tried to estimate the financial consequences of usage of
the two HeLa contaminated cell lines HEp-2 and Intestine 407 (Korch & Capes-Davis, 2021). …

CLASTR: the Cellosaurus STR similarity search tool‐a precious help for cell line authentication

T Robin, A CapesDavis… - International journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite an increased awareness of the problematic of cell line cross‐contamination and
misidentification, it remains nowadays a major source of erroneous experimental results in …

Widespread use of misidentified cell line KB (HeLa): incorrect attribution and its impact revealed through mining the scientific literature

L Vaughan, W Glänzel, C Korch, A Capes-Davis - Cancer Research, 2017 - AACR
Continuous cell lines are widely used, but can result in invalid, irreproducible research data.
Cell line misidentification is a common problem that can be detected by authentication …

Authentication of M14 melanoma cell line proves misidentification of MDA‐MB‐435 breast cancer cell line

…, WA Robinson, A CapesDavis - … journal of cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of analytical approaches have indicated that melanoma cell line UCLA‐SO‐M14 (M14)
and breast carcinoma cell line MDA‐MB‐435 originate from a common donor. This …

[HTML][HTML] The need for a worldwide consensus for cell line authentication: Experience implementing a mandatory requirement at the International Journal of Cancer

NE Fusenig, A Capes-Davis, F Bianchini, S Sundell… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Cell lines are used in life science research worldwide as biological surrogates. All cell lines
are subject to major limitations when used as research tools, including (i) cross-…

[HTML][HTML] Automated screening of COVID-19 preprints: can we help authors to improve transparency and reproducibility?

…, G Ter Riet, J Byrne, G Cabanac, A Capes-Davis… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
4. Cunningham, AL et al. J. Infect. Dis. 217, 1750–1760 (2018). 5. Carter, JJ et al. J. Infect. Dis.
174, 927–936 (1996). 6. Day, PM et al. Cell Host Microbe 8, 260–270 (2010). 7. Cohen, J. …

Incidences of problematic cell lines are lower in papers that use RRIDs to identify cell lines

Z Babic, A Capes-Davis, ME Martone, A Bairoch… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.41676.001 The use of misidentified and contaminated cell lines continues to
be a problem in biomedical research. Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) should reduce …