Cell culture is a deliciously inviting hub for bacteria, fungi, and mycoplasmas. However, as our own 'cell-culture sleuth' points out, failing to detect and eliminate contamination can alter all ...

Mycoplasmas, Acholeplasmas, and Ureaplasmas all belong to the Mollicutes class—small prokaryotes that do not have a rigid cell wall. Contamination of cell culture media by these organisms has become a ...

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 ...

Cell cultures are at high risk of mycoplasma contamination due to the bacteria's lack of a rigid cell wall, its small size and its varying shape. Once a cell culture has been infected, mycoplasma can ...

In the face of a bacterium that easily resists common antibiotics, members of UAB established testing to identify it in human disease. Mycoplasma, that is. Mycoplasmas are the smallest free-living ...

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