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Projects/Programs

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Bioprocess Modeling for Expansion of Cell Culture

Ongoing
One of the most critical steps in bioprocessing is the controlled expansion of frozen cell cultures to generate sufficient cell quantities for manufacturing cell-based products or assay systems. This project focuses on building a scalable model for cell expansion processes that can support the

Engineering Biology Metrics and Technical Standards for the Global Bioeconomy

Ongoing
Stakeholders from the Americas, Asia and Australia, and Europe and Africa, came together through a series of regional workshops in Washington D.C., Singapore, and Brussels, respectively, to identify specific areas for development, both technical and non-technical towards continued scale-up and economic growth across the bioeconomy.

NIST Genome Editing Consortium: Working Group 1 - Specificity Measurements

Ongoing
Genome editing technologies are able to produce DNA sequence changes of a variety of sizes and at a variety of frequencies in a population of edited cells. Having increased confidence in reliably detecting the sequences generated by a genome editing process was a need area identified. Project 1

NIST Genome Editing Consortium

Ongoing
Targeted genome editing , a method used to alter the DNA of living cells at desired locations, is poised to revolutionize science and medicine. To fight diseases, novel genome edited therapeutics, including those for use in regenerative medicine and infectious diseases, are being developed. Many

NIST Genome Editing Consortium: Working Group 2 - Data & Metadata

Ongoing
Develop a metadata schema for genome editing experiments Develop a way of curating and entry that is low burden for user Release control data with linked metadata PROGRESS Phase1 metadata entries and templates completed In process of compiling and testing use cases, user interfaces, and

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 Living Measurement Systems Foundry

Ongoing
To enable the production of high-throughput, high-quality data that meets the rapidly evolving needs of current and future stakeholders, NIST has established an automation facility for the growth, manipulation, sample preparation, and measurement of engineered microbes. The core of the facility

Prototype Cell Assay Measurement Platform (P-CAMP)

Ongoing
A systematic approach to the development of robust biological assay includes identifying and ranking the sources of variability in an assay protocol. With a focus on mammalian cellular assays, the Prototype Cell Assay Measurement Platform ( P-CAMP) laboratory was designed and built to take advantage

RMAT Laboratory Programs

Ongoing
Examples of Current Activities: Cell Counting and viability are key measurements critical for decision making from R&D to manufacturing. We recently developed an approach for evaluating the quality of cell counting measurements through experimental design and statistical analysis that does not

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

Single-Cell Manipulation and Measurement

Ongoing
Mammalian cells are an important source material for applications in regenerative medicine, gene therapy, engineering biology, and genome editing. Traditional tools for manipulating mammalian cells operate at a bulk cell population level without precision manipulation of individual cells

Synthetic Biology

Ongoing
New measurement methods and tools are required for biology to emerge fully as an enabling, practical platform for engineering. The Cellular Engineering Group works to provide a foundation of measurement assurance to support the control and rational design of biological function. Through state of the

Unfolding and Aggregation of Therapeutic Proteins

Completed
A stable protein formulation is essential to the safety of mAb drugs. In particular, mAb drug solutions formulated at high concentrations can undergo various biophysical instabilities, such as aggregation and liquid-liquid phase separation. These undesired solution properties are primarily driven by
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