Cell biology

News and Updates

Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way

March 6, 2020

Researchers at NIST have devised a way to eliminate a long-standing problem affecting our understanding of both living

Stem Cells and AI: Better Together

November 18, 2019

One day in the future when you need medical care, someone will examine you, diagnose the problem, remove some of your

NIST Goes With the (Slow) Flow: New Technique Could Improve Biotech, Precision Medicine

September 26, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an optical system that

A Bubbly New Way to Detect the Magnetic Fields of Nanometer-Scale Particles

June 10, 2019

As if they were bubbles expanding in a just-opened bottle of champagne, tiny circular regions of magnetism can be

Events

Build a Cell Workshop #7

Fri, Aug 21 2020

Build a Cell Workshop #7 will take place on August 21, 2020, and is hosted by the National Institute of Standards and

Projects and Programs

DARPA Friend or Foe (FoF) -- Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

The development of new platforms for characterization of complex microbial samples are hampered by lack of reproducibility and comparability across different

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line authentication

The misidentification of cell lines has been a problem in the scientific community for the past 50 years. Methods are now in place to genotype human cell lines

Advanced Therapies Laboratory Programs

The NIST Advanced Therapy laboratory programs are focused on developing innovative measurement assurance solutions and technologies to accelerate translation

NIST/EDRN Cancer Biomarker Collaboration

NIST supports the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) as a Biomarker Reference Laboratory by efficiently validating the

Publications

CELL-FREE (Comparable Engineered Living Lysates for Research Education and Entrepreneurship) Workshop Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Eugenia F. Romantseva

The CELL-FREE Workshop sought to identify and prioritize actionable steps towards more reproducible and comparable cell-free systems for practical applications

Unwinding twenty years of the archaeal minichromosome maintenance helicase

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Lori M. Kelman, William B. O'Dell, Zvi Kelman

Structure and Dynamics of a Site-Specific Labeled Fc Fragment with Altered Effector Functions

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

David T. Gallagher, Robert G. Brinson, John P. Marino, nazzareno dimasi

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a class of biotherapeutic drugs designed as targeted therapies for the treatment of cancer. Among the challenges in

Characterization of the internal translation initiation region in monoclonal antibodies expressed in Escherichia coli

October 11, 2019

Author(s)

Erik M. Leith, William B. O'Dell, Na Ke, Colleen McClung, Mehmet Berkmen, Christina Bergonzo, Robert G. Brinson, Zvi Kelman

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) represent an important platform for the development of biotherapeutic products. While most mAbs are produced in mammalian cells

Software

Custom Lifetime Imaging Platform (CLIP)

CLIP is an analysis program for fluorescence lifetime images. It provides the user with the ability to fit or calculate the phasor plots for lifetime decays

Awards

Elijah Petersen Receives ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology Award

The 2020 Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award was selected by a committee jointly comprised of members from the Chemical...