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NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC)

Completed
Established in 2002, the NCMC combines pioneering research and customer engagement to foster wide-spread adaptation of combinatorial and high-throughput methodologies. NCMC research addresses key challenges faced by polymer researchers who want to employ combi. In particular, the NCMC creates new...

NIST Data Resources for Adsorption

Ongoing
NIST/ARPA-e Database of Novel and Emerging Adsorbent Materials A centralized resource for the scientific community to find and compare single- and multi-component adsorption isotherms reported in the literature. The database sorts data according to adsorbent material, adsorbate species...

NIST/EDRN Cancer Biomarker Collaboration

Completed
Our lab is one of the EDRN Biomarker Reference Laboratories working with the EDRN discovery labs to improve the quality of the measurements done on new cancer biomarkers for early detection of cancer and for cancer risk. TECHNICAL APPROACH Evaluate current assays used for detection of cancer...

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Ongoing
Evaluation of Latent Friction Ridge Technology As of May 2020, NIST is relaunching its latent fingerprint technology research and broadening it to all types of friction ridges, including palms. The new evaluation picks up and greatly enhances the concept of operations described in ELFT-EFS...

NIST Flow Cytometry Standards Consortium 

Ongoing
Advances in cell and gene-based therapeutics as well as other regenerative medicine products have increased the need for high quality, robust, and validated measurements for cell characterization. Flow cytometry, including imaging cytometry, has emerged as an important platform due to its ability to...

NIST Food Protein Allergen Program

Ongoing
Food allergen management is an increasingly important economic and public health concern; therefore, accurate and reliable allergen measurements are a crucial component of the management pathway. Traditional methods for food allergen detection are based on immunoassay techniques and are linked to a...

NIST Food Safety Program

Ongoing
The Food Safety Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides advanced analytical chemistry and quantitative biology to ensure that food is free of contaminants and allergens and is authentic, promoting U.S. manufacturers’ participation in domestic and foreign markets...

NIST Forensic Science Training Program

Ongoing
Informational Scientific Primers for Officers of the Court: Intended to Strengthen Use of Forensic Science Evidence Forensic science is an applied science that is built upon the application of chemistry, biology, physics, measurement science, and statistics to address questions of identification of...

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 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: 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 Lexicon

Ongoing
The definitions are worded with the intention that additional context may be added with supplementary language when they are used. It is also recognized that genome editing is a rapidly evolving biotechnology and additional terms and definitions will be needed as genome editing technologies mature...

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 HER2 Genomic DNA Standard Reference Material, SRM® 2373

Ongoing
The amplification of the gene for HER2 occurs in approximately 20 to 25% of breast cancers. The accurate measurement of this biomarker is important for the proper treatment with anti-HER2 therapeutics. Clinical laboratories are beginning to utilize accurate and sensitive diagnostic tests based on...

NIST Industrial Wireless 5G Testbed

Ongoing
The NIST 5G Industrial Wireless Testbed project aims to revolutionize industrial connectivity by deploying and evaluating the capabilities of 5 th generation (5G) wireless technology within an industrial setting. This initiative responds to the emerging demand for ultra-reliable, low-latency...

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 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...

NIST Materials Resource Registry

Ongoing
The MRR is a comprehensive inventory of high-level data collections, repositories, databases, tools, software, and services useful to materials research and design but located anywhere in the world. Its specialization for Materials Science is in the domain-specific metadata and vocabulary it can...

NIST Materials-focused Empirical Potentials Repositories and Efforts

Ongoing
SOFT MATTER WebFF: Force-field repository for organic and soft materials Frederick R. Phelan Jr., 1 and Huai Sun 2 1Materials Science and Engineering Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 2Aeon Technology Inc. and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University...

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...

The NIST Mise en Pratique since the Redefinition of the Kilogram

Ongoing
Realization Since the redefinition of the kilogram, the NIST Mass and Force Group has been closely involved with the NIST-4 Kibble balance project and its realization of the electronic kilogram via the Kibble Principle. Traceability post-realization is maintained through what is referred to as the...

NIST/MML Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science

Ongoing
The Center's mission is to support the Material Measurement Laboratory's mission in materials measurement and data delivery by: developing, solving, and quantifying materials models using state-of-the-art computational approaches; creating opportunities for collaboration where CTCMS can make a...
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