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Showcase - Bio-imaging Technologies (9/2009)
Release Date: 10/06/2009 A TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND FEDERAL MARKETPLACE EVENT TEDCO, NIST and NIH Present Bio-imaging Technologies For Commercial Adoption On Tuesday, … more
DNA Sieve: Nanoscale Pores Can Be Tiny Analysis Labs
Release Date: 05/10/2007 Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using less than a drop of salt water in a system that can … more
ERCC to Begin Test Rounds for Final RNA Reference Set
Release Date: 09/14/2006 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC), has awarded a contract … more
Workshop Addresses Imaging Technology in Therapeutics
Release Date: 08/03/2006 Increasingly, medical and pharmaceutical researchers are looking to biomedical imaging as a tool to track disease progress, speed drug discovery … more
Links Between DNA Damage and Breast Cancer Studied
Release Date: 08/03/2006 Researchers from the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered a … more
Neuronal Cell Cultures Kept on the Straight and Narrow
Release Date: 05/25/2006 An improved technique for culturing cells, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may enable new, fundamental … more
NIST and NCI to Collaborate On Proteomics Assessment
Release Date: 05/12/2006 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health have begun … more
Consortium Seeks Comment on Gene Expression Roadmap
Release Date: 08/26/2005 The External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC) has issued for comment a draft plan for the selection and qualification of candidate RNA sequences, to … more
Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
Release Date: 07/26/2005 In cancer research, biomarkers are molecules that indicate the presence of cancer in the body. Most are based on abnormal changes or mutations in … more
New Gene Chip May Be Early Cancer Diagnosis Tool
Release Date: 06/16/2005 A pilot study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection … more
Using Mitochondrial DNA as a Cancer Biomarker
Release Date: 10/30/2002 The ghostly image above shows a subdividing cell treated with a fluorescent stain that is selectively absorbed by mitochondria. As part of a … more
How Cold! New Partnership to Use Chilled Neutrons To Solve Cell Membrane Puzzles
Release Date: 02/19/2002 Cell membrane researchers are eagerly bracing for a long-awaited cold wave. A new partnership involving the National Institute of Standards and … more
Cold Neutrons for Biology and Technology
Release Date: 02/19/2002 What’s so hot about “cold” neutrons? Packaged with protons in the atomic nucleus, neutrons are non-destructive, … more |
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