Pranvera Ikonomi

TL;DR: The External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC) is developing commonly agreed-upon and tested controls for use in expression assays, a true industry-wide standard control.

TL;DR: A multiplex PCR-based assay to rapidly identify the most common cell culture species and quickly detect cross-contamination among these species and a two-pronged molecular approach that addresses these issues by targeting the mitochondrial genome are described.

TL;DR: The feasibility of using the mitochondrial cox1 gene as a taxonomic marker for 'barcoding' and identifying Tetrahymena species and some other ciliated protists is demonstrated.

TL;DR: Increased sampling efforts show that intraspecific sequence divergence is typically less than 1%, though it may be more in some species, and cox-1 barcoding showed that some strains might be misidentified or mislabeled.

TL;DR: Short tandem repeat (STR) profiling, one of a few DNA profiling technologies now available, is being proposed for routine identification (authentication) of human cell lines, stem cells, and tissues.