Several different types of microbes can contaminate cell culture, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and Mycoplasma.Some of these, such as mold contamination, can be obvious, and therefore caught ...

Mycoplasma contamination is prevalent in cell culture labs: in one study, researchers identified mycoplasma contamination in 11% of the 10,000 cell lines they tested (Olarerin-George et al. 2015).

Mycoplasma is a common bacterial contaminator in cell culture laboratories. Mycoplasma contamination has been shown to induce cellular changes, e.g. susceptibility to drugs, which could render any ...

Mycoplasmas are small, prokaryotic organisms and the most common contaminants found in cell cultures. Contamination by mycoplasma continues to be a major issue in cell culture as it can cause drastic ...

Ensuring cell culture sterility is essential in small and large bioprocesses. Microbial contamination from bacteria, viruses, and fungi can spread among experiments and workflows—wasting time, ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created nanostructured alumina surfaces which are strongly antibacterial but can be used to culture cells. They found that anodic porous alumina ...