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More information about how NIST is supporting key sectors in South Carolina will be added to this page in the future.
Learn more about how NIST’s cryogenic teams protect invaluable specimens when hurricanes are headed to Charleston and how one researcher there studied cone snail venom for potential use in medical treatments.
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