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NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM)

The office serves as the headquarters for the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office to coordinate Manufacturing USA, a network of manufacturing innovation institutes across the country that brings together industry, academia, and the public sector to advance American

The Incredible Shrinking ESR Machine

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large...

WG5 Data Processing and Integration

ISO/TC 276/WG 5 “Data processing and integration” aims to develop ISO deliverables for traceable, searchable, and interoperable data together with integrated

Cell Line Authentication

Cells derived from different organisms and tissues have been established and are used in bioresearch and for the production of complex biological products. The

Calibration of Force Transducers

NIST provides calibration services for force-measuring instruments by applying known forces, compression, tension or both, to the elastic transducer and

Four PML Scientists Honored

In recent days, four scientists in the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been recognized...

Cell Counting for Cell Therapies

Cell counting (or cell enumeration) is one of the most fundamental measurements in biotechnology, from biomanufacturing to medical diagnosis to advanced therapy

Calibration of Mass Standards

The NIST Mass and Force Group disseminates the unit of mass, the kilogram, to the US measurement system through calibrations of customer weights and weight sets
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