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Joy Dunkers, Hariharan K. Iyer, Brynna H. Jones, Charles Camp, Stephan J. Stranick, Nancy Lin
Quantifying viable, vegetative bacteria is a critical measurand in healthcare diagnostics, food safety, and antimicrobial development. Viability determination has traditionally relied on such techniques as plate counting, colorimetric or fluorescent
Mridu Malik, Yang Yang, Parinaz Fathi, Gretchen Mahler, Mandy Esch
The process of identifying new drugs and getting them approved for use in patients requires extensive preclinical studies and clinical trials. Preclinical studies rely on in vitro experiments and animal models of human diseases. The reliability of data
Assessing the reproducibility, accuracy and utility of massively parallel DNA sequencing platforms remains an ongoing challenge. Here the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Next-Generation Sequencing Study benchmarks the performance of
Tracey Johnston, Elena Legrand, J. Sook Chung, Tsvetan Bachvaroff
The crustacean molting process is regulated by an interplay of hormones produced by the eyestalk ganglia and Y-organs (YO). Molt-inhibiting hormone and crustacean hyperglycemic hormone released by the sinus gland of the eyestalk ganglia (EG) inhibit the
Madhura Damle, Stephen Peters, Veronika Szalai, Oriana Fisher
Bacteria require a precise balance of copper ions to ensure that essential cuproproteins are fully metalated while also avoiding copper-induced toxicity. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis maintains appropriate copper homeostasis in part through
Debra Ellisor, Benjamin Place, Melissa M. Phillips, James H. Yen
NIST Reference Material (RM) 8256 Wild-caught Coho Salmon, RM 8257 Aquacultured Coho Salmon, RM 8258 Wild-caught Shrimp and RM 8259 Aquacultured Shrimp were generated for use in authentication, nutrition and food safety-related determinations of crude fat
Yaw S. Obeng, Brian J. Nablo, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Dianne L. Poster, Michael T. Postek
Microwave (MW) sensing offers noninvasive, real-time detection of the electromagnetic properties of biological materials via the highly concentrated electromagnetic fields, for which advantages include wide bandwidth, small size, and cost-effective
Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Richard Martinello, Norman Horn, Michael T. Postek, Troy Cowan, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted an international workshop on ultraviolet-C (UV-C) disinfection technologies on January 14 – 15, 2020 in Gaithersburg, Maryland in collaboration with the International Ultraviolet Association
Manuel Carrasco, Suman Alishetty, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Hooda Said, Lacey Wright, Mikell Paige, Ousamah Soliman, Drew Weissman, Thomas Cleveland, Alexander Grishaev, Michael Buschmann
Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) are used to deliver siRNA and COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. The main factor known to determine their delivery efficiency is the pKa of the LNP containing an ionizable lipid. Herein, we report a method that can predict the LNP pKa from
Eugene Yoon, Angela Stelson, Nate Orloff, Chris Long, Jim Booth, Ellis Meng
Thin film Parylene C has increasingly been employed as a substrate material with metals like platinum (Pt), especially in MEMS implantable devices. To assist in device design, broadband dielectric spectroscopy (up to 110 GHz) can characterize such
Adolfas Gaigalas, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Linhua Tian, Lili Wang
A stochastic model of the flow cytometer measurement process was developed to understand the nature of the observed coefficient of variation (CV%) of the mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) from labeled receptors on a B cell population. The current version
Nathan Castro, Greta Babakhanova, Jerry Hu, Kyriacos Athanasiou
Traditional testing methods have helped to elucidate and correlate the structure-function relationship of natural tissues and have guided the development of promising tissue-engineered medical products. From a manufacturing standpoint, such assays have
Physicians are increasingly using clinical sequencing tests to establish diagnoses of patients who might have genetic disorders, which means that accuracy of sequencing and interpretation are important elements in ensuring the benefits of genetic testing