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Fundamental Chemical Metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/22/2012 The Chemical Sciences Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more
Nano-biophotonics for molecular imaging
Last Updated Date: 10/18/2012 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: 10/18/2012 Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, … more
Evaluating Measurement Quality of Microfluidic Cell-based Assays
Last Updated Date: 10/10/2012 Microfluidic technologies show promise as miniaturized, portable platforms for cell assays, but must be tested to establish confidence of … more
Improved Benchtop Connectivity to Complex Microfluidic Devices
Last Updated Date: 10/10/2012 Despite their promise to enable high-throughput science and discovery, microfluidic devices have not yet been broadly adopted. An important … more
Cell-based Assay for Mechanistically-based Prediction of Cytoxicity
Last Updated Date: 10/10/2012 The most commonly used cell-based assays for measuring cytotoxicity often show poor reproducibility, require 24 h to complete, and rely on a … more
Chemical Characterization of Nanomaterial Formulations for Cancer Treatment in Support of the NCI Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 New generations of nanoparticles are being developed to provide early-stage detection and treatment of cancer. Much of the evaluative work on … more
Superresolving Optical Microscopy
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and … more
Site-Specific Bioimaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 In collaboration with scientists at the Laboratory for Cell Biology (LCB) within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of … more
Bioimaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to develop methods and materials for imaging-based characterization of molecular signatures that occur during cellular proliferation, … more
Certification of a Standard Reference Material for BK viral load
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 BK virus originally described in 1971 [1] is common but generally asymptomatic in adults [2] . more
Controlling Microfluidic Cell Culture Environments
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 NIST has taken advantage of recent technological advances to develop polymer microfluidic cell culture systems that provide a level of control … more
Quantification of Cells with Specific Phenotypic Characteristics
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Flow cytometers are versatile instruments that have been successfully used to enumerate cell subsets in infectious diseases (e.g., HIV) and to … 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
Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2010 Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The … more |
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