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Computational Science in Biometrology
Last Updated Date: 05/21/2012 Computational Science in Biological Metrology (CS in Bio Metrology) project is about Computational Science and Biology Delivering Measurements … more
Development of Enhanced mRNA Amplification using Microfluidics
Last Updated Date: 05/07/2012 In conjunction with NCI/NIH, NIST is developing methods to improve mRNA amplification from small biological samples. Typical sample processing … more
Nano-biophotonics for molecular imaging
Last Updated Date: 05/07/2012 Biophotonics is at the intersection of photonics and biology where light is used to image, detect, and manipulate biological materials. This … more
Biophysics of Model Membranes
Last Updated Date: 05/07/2012 Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, … more
Traceability in Molecular Spectrophotometry
Last Updated Date: 04/28/2012 Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and NIST Traceable Reference Materials (NTRMs) for UV/visible/NIR spectrophotometry are certified transfer … more
Recertification of Neutral Density SRMs for Regular Spectral Transmittance
Last Updated Date: 04/28/2012 The certification for all SRM neutral density filters expires after two years. We maintain a program to recertify such filters produced by us . … more
Development of a Collagen Fibril Reference Material for Reproducible Cell Response
Last Updated Date: 04/28/2012 An important determinant of cellular response to drugs and toxins is the chemical and physical nature of the extracellular matrix (ECM) to which … more
New Scalable Green Protocols for Processing Carbon Nanotubes
Last Updated Date: 04/18/2012 The overall aim of this project is to develop and validate general methods and protocols for purification, size-separation and dispersion of … more
Nanotube Metrology
Last Updated Date: 03/09/2012 The Nanotube Metrology project is dedicated to improving the measurement methods for, and fundamental understanding of, single-wall carbon … more
Advanced Materials Metrology
Last Updated Date: 03/02/2012 In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the … more
Rapid Measurement of Aggregation of Protein Therapeutics During Biomanufacturing
Last Updated Date: 12/29/2011 Protein therapeutics is the largest class of drugs made by the biotechnology industry. Aggregation of protein therapeutics is a major safety … more
Surface Characterization of Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles
Last Updated Date: 12/29/2011 This work examines the surface chemistry of conjugated gold nanoparticles, where the molecular modifiers are linked to the gold NP via a … more
Optical medical imaging
Last Updated Date: 12/15/2011 The Optical Medical Imaging program was established to advance the application of optical imaging in surgical, clinical, and medical practices. … more
Electronics-Based Bio-Sensing, Single Molecule Metrology, and Membrane Protein Structure-Function
Last Updated Date: 12/15/2011 Nearly 14 years ago, we demonstrated that a single nanopore could be used to electrically detect individual molecules of single-stranded RNA and … more
Performance Metrics for Proteomics
Last Updated Date: 11/17/2011 In collaboration with the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) , NIST researchers are developing … more |
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