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NIST Genome Editing Program

Ongoing
For genome editing systems to reach their full potential in research and commercial products, new measurement tools, capabilities, and standards must be developed to efficiently implement and assess the performance of these editing technologies, as well as to evaluate the utility of resulting...

NIST LabCAS: Data Driven Science Architecture and Resource

Ongoing
Biological data lie at the heart of innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the emerging biotechnology sector and serve as key strategic resources for achieving major breakthroughs in biomanufacturing, as summarized by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology's...

NIST Microbial Strain Collection

Ongoing
Microorganisms of interest include but are not limited to those relevant to: biomanufacturing of advanced therapy products; rapid microbial testing; microbial therapeutics (e.g., live biotherapeutic products, probiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantations (FMTs)); infectious disease...

NIST Rapid Microbial Testing Methods Consortium

Ongoing
The safety and quality of advanced therapies, including cell therapy, gene therapy, and tissue engineered products, must be maintained prior to patient administration. The culture-based compendial methods currently used to assess product purity (specifically to ensure absence of microbial...

Ontologies and Interoperability in Evolutionary Comparative Analysis

Completed
Intended impact Nearly all scientists who regularly use online resources on genes, proteins and genomes make use of comparative data to advance biomedical research. For instance, researchers often make useful inferences by comparing human genes (as well as proteins, reactions, interactions, pathways...

Pathogen Detection and Identification: The Next Generation of Analyses

Ongoing
Human disease resulting from pathogens represents a tremendous burden on the health care system. Many hospitals have adopted new, rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection systems because the time to diagnose and begin effective treatment has a direct impact on patient survival and...

Reference Material 8038 H5N1 (Avian Influenza) Synthetic RNA Fragments

Completed
In response to the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, NIST has developed a Reference Material (RM) for PCR-based assays. This material contains 3 vials with RNA fragments for HA (Part A), NA (Part B), and MP (Part C). The Reference Material Information Sheet (RMIS) for this material contains information...

RNA Computation and Metrology for Engineering Biology

Ongoing
RNA computation RNA computation, i.e., programmed interactions between RNA molecules that process information, is an increasingly useful synthetic biology tool with applications spanning in vitro biosensing, synthetic cells, and cellular control. We have developed cotranscriptionally encoded RNA...

Wastewater Surveillance

Ongoing
NIST is partnering with the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS/S&T) to develop documentary standards and reference materials to support an enduring capability in wastewater surveillance. Ongoing activities include: Development of a research grade test material...
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