Baby hamster kidney cell

Baby Hamster Kidney fibroblasts (aka BHK cells) are an adherent cell line used in molecular biology. The cells were derived in 1961 by I. A. Macpherson and M. G. P. Stoker. Nowadays occasionally used, subclone 13 which originally derived by single-cell isolation from the kidneys of five unsexed, 1-day-old hamsters.