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Projects/Programs

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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
Project #1: Foundational Science Primers for Officers of the Court The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)/National Research Council published a report in 2009, entitled Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States - A Path Forward, which provided many forensic science challenges in the United

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

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 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

NIST Mise en Pratique of the New Kilogram Definition

Ongoing
Realization Since the redefinition of the kilogram, the Mass and Force Group has been intricately involved with the NIST realization of mass via the Kibble balance. By maintaining traceability to the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) via the 2019 calibration of NIST National Prototype K20, 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

NIST Monoclonal Antibody Reference Material 8671

Ongoing
The NISTmAb material is a recombinant humanized IgG1κ expressed in murine suspension culture. It is an »150 kDa homodimer of two identical light chains and two identical heavy chains linked through both inter- and intra-chain disulfide bonds. The protein has low abundance post-translational

NIST/NIBIB Medical Imaging Phantom Lending Library

Ongoing
Phantoms are calibration objects that can be used to assess the accuracy, stability, and comparability of medical imaging systems. The NIST/ISMRM MRI system phantom can be used to assess scanner geometric distortion, image uniformity, signal to noise ratio (SNR), resolution, slice profile and

NIST/NRC Fire Research Collaborations

Ongoing
Objective: To provide measurement data and analysis tools that enable accurate, efficient, probabilistic risk assessments for fire scenarios in nuclear power plants. Recent Research: Brief descriptions and links to technical reports developed from recent NIST/NRC collaborations focused on Cable

NIST Ocean Carbon Measurements

Ongoing
NIST is committed to sustaining the quality of ocean carbon measurements by developing capabilities to provide certified reference materials for the ocean carbonate system measurements and by conducting research to understand fundamental elements of the ocean carbon thermodynamic system. NIST Ocean

NIST OWM – NCWM: An Enduring Partnership for Over 100 Years

Ongoing
The National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was first held as the “First Annual Meeting of Sealers of Weights and Measures of the United States” in 1905 and as part of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which was the predecessor non-regulatory agency to the National Institute of

NIST U.S. Pacific Islands Program

Completed
To help address environmental research and resource management in the Pacific Islands region, the 111th U.S. Congress directed NIST to "expand its capabilities and resources into the Pacific region through a Pacific Islands component of NIST" and included funding to "expand its biodiversity storage

NIST Proficiency Testing

Ongoing
A typical lot of NIST SRMs has 300 units, with 5 specimens in each unit. These SRMs are tested by customers and the customer verification data is returned to NIST for evaluation according to the requirements of ASTM E23. Once a minimum of 50 verification results are returned to NIST for a particular