Biomolecular characterization

News and Updates

A man (Young Jong Lee) in a red shirt and safety goggles leans over a piece of scientific equipment.

Spotlight: Young Jong Lee

January 18, 2020

What are you made of? With a new measurement technique from NIST’s Young Jong Lee, scientists can answer that question on the cellular level with 100 times more

Projects and Programs

Standards for Assessing the Safety of Recreational Waters from Fecal Contamination

Contamination of waterways with fecal material leads to the dissemination of pathogens and antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can have serious impacts on human

HDX-MS for Biopharmaceutical Analysis

This project applies hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) for determining the dynamical structure of therapeutic antibodies, glycoproteins

Human Gut Microbiome Reference Material

To identify new biomarkers that may serve as disease indicators and to understand biologically relevant properties of the human gut microbiome, we need

Development of NIST Reference Materials for Untargeted Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Proteomics

The use of metabolite, lipid, and protein profiles for systems biology, biomedical research, and clinical applications has risen dramatically over recent years

Publications

A serum small molecule biosignature of radiation exposure from total body irradiated patients

October 6, 2017

Author(s)

Evagelia C. Laiakis, Evan L. Pannkuk, Siddheshwar Chauthe, Yi-Wen Wang, Ming Liang, Tytus D. Mak, Christopher A. Barker, Giuseppe Astarita, Albert J. Fornace

The potential of radiological accidents and nuclear terrorism have increased the need for development of new rapid biodosimetry methods. In addition, in a

Processing-Structure Relationships of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Modified Liposomes

July 11, 2017

Author(s)

Kenneth Mineart, Vivek M. Prabhu, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Michihiro Nagao

Awards

Schiel Honored with Flemming Award

John Schiel played a leading role in the development of a protein therapeutic measurements and standards program that works closely with the