Cell biology

News and Updates

NIST’s Joint Institute for Metrology in Biology Moves to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

February 07, 2019

The Joint Institute for Metrology in Biology ( JIMB ), founded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (...

A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines

June 08, 2018

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,”...

New NIST Service: Extending Traceable Measurements Inside the Human Body

March 23, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve...

A close-up view of cells that have been labelled with fluorophores in blue, green, red and orange to highlight composition.

CHO and Tell

February 22, 2018

Although few people realize it, modern medicine relies heavily on the ovarian cells of Chinese hamsters, not as a...

Publications

Innovative Approaches to Combat Healthcare-Associated Infections Using Efficacy Standards Developed Through Industry and Federal Collaboration

October 05, 2018

Author(s):

Dianne L. Poster, Carl C. Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, Michael T. Postek, Troy E. Cowan, Richard A. Martinello

Nation-wide, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) infect one in every 25 hospital patients, account for more than 100,000 deaths and increase medical costs...

Imaging linear and circular polarization features in leaves with complete Mueller matrix polarimetry

June 01, 2018

Author(s):

C.H. L. Patty, David Luo, Frans Snik, Freek Ariese, Wybren J. Buma, Inge L. ten Kate, Rob J. van Spanning, William Sparks, Thomas A. Germer, Gy?z? Garab, Michael W. Kudenov

Spectropolarimetry of intact plant leaves allows to probe the molecular architecture of vegetation photosynthesis in a non-invasive and non-destructive way and...

Opportunities and Challenges in Implementation of Multiparameter Single Cell Analysis Platforms for Clinical Translation

May 11, 2018

Author(s):

susan M. Keating, D. Lansing Taylor, Anne L. Plant, E. David Litwack, Peter Kuhn, Emily J. Greenspan, Christopher M. Hartshorn, Caroline C. Sigman, Gary J. Kelloff, Gregory Friberg, Jerry S. Lee, Keisuke Kuida

The high-content interrogation of single cells with platforms optimized for the multiparameter characterization of cells in liquid and solid biopsy samples can...

Mass Measurements of Focal Adhesions in Single Cells Using High Resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscopy

February 23, 2018

Author(s):

Alexander W. Peterson, Alessandro Tona, Michael W. Halter, Anne L. Plant, John T. Elliott

Surface plasmon resonance microscopy (SPRM) is a powerful label-free imaging technique with spatial resolution approaching the optical diffraction limit. The...

Projects & Programs

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...

Cell biology

News and Updates

NIST’s Joint Institute for Metrology in Biology Moves to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines

New NIST Service: Extending Traceable Measurements Inside the Human Body

CHO and Tell

Publications

Innovative Approaches to Combat Healthcare-Associated Infections Using Efficacy Standards Developed Through Industry and Federal Collaboration

Imaging linear and circular polarization features in leaves with complete Mueller matrix polarimetry

Opportunities and Challenges in Implementation of Multiparameter Single Cell Analysis Platforms for Clinical Translation

Mass Measurements of Focal Adhesions in Single Cells Using High Resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscopy

Projects & Programs

Comparative Serum Proteomics Project

Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program

NIST/EDRN Cancer Biomarker Collaboration

Building Measurement Confidence for Cell Characterization

Software

Custom Lifetime Imaging Platform (CLIP)