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A new twist on measuring spin: NIST Develops Microresonator to Study Electron Spin in Small Volumes

November 17, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a device to detect a quantum property of electrons, known as spin, in

NIST Scientists Get Soft on 3D Printing

September 22, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in

NIST Awards $8.9 Million to Fund High-Impact Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Projects to Battle COVID-19

May 27, 2020

Authorized by the CARES Act, the funding will go to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL).

SBIR funds internationally marketable quality audit instrument

November 1, 2019

En’Urga Inc., an advanced diagnostic equipment company, recently found success with a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institute of

Projects and Programs

Development of a Collagen Fibril Reference Material for Reproducible Cell Response

An important determinant of cellular response to drugs and toxins is the chemical and physical nature of the extracellular matrix (ECM) to which cells are

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

Combating Antibiotic Resistance

A Paradigm Shift in Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: Measuring the Transition Between Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance With the exception of our own

NIST PS1 Primary Standard for quantitative NMR (Benzoic Acid)

The "first-of-its-kind" in an entirely new class of reference material, NIST PS1 Primary Standard for quantitative NMR (Benzoic Acid) is now available! The PS

Publications

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses, 3rd edition

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

George D. Quinn

Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics, for fractures in the laboratory and for component failures

Effect of thermal ballast loading on temperature stability of domestic refrigerators used for vaccine storage

July 8, 2020

Author(s)

Michal J. Chojnacky, Alexandra L. Rodriguez

Vaccine temperature control failures represent a significant public and private healthcare cost. Vaccines damaged by excessive heat or freezing lose their

Chemometric Outlier Classification of 2D-NMR Spectra to Enable Higher Order Structure Characterization of Protein Therapeutics

April 15, 2020

Author(s)

David A. Sheen, Vincent K. Shen, Robert G. Brinson, Luke W. Arbogast, John P. Marino, Frank Delaglio

Protein therapeutics are vitally important clinically and commercially, with monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutic sales alone accounting for $115 billion in

Highland Games: A benchmarking exercise in predicting biophysical and drug properties of monoclonal antibodies from DNA sequences

April 7, 2020

Author(s)

John E. Schiel, Coffman Jon, Bruno Marques, Griesbach Jan, Ambrose Williams, Gisela Ferreira, Rushd Khalaf, David Roush, Charles Haynes

Biopharmaceutical product and process development does not yet take advantage of predictive computational modeling to nearly the degree seen in industries based