Widely Used Brain Cancer Cell Line Faces Identity Crisis (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Widely Used Brain Cancer Cell Line Faces Identity Crisis (2 of 2)

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A microscope image of brain cancer cells, a glioma tumor type known as anaplastic astrocytoma. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 31, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Allen at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, 'Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: Good news and bad news.'

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