Bioscience & Health Portal -- OverviewNew medical diagnostic tests, improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care electronic records, reference materials for laboratory test methods, faster screening of promising vaccines, these are a few of the many areas where National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research serves the needs of the bioscience and health care community. NIST collaborates extensively with other federal and private organizations to provide the new measurements and standards methods, tools, and data needed to advance biosciences and health research. Bioscience and Health represent a large portion of that content. Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research>> Programs and Projects
MEMS Measurement Science and Standards
Our goal is to provide technical leadership in R&D for the MEMS measurement infrastructure essential to improving U.S. economic … more
Understanding Protein Solution Phase Behavior via Coarse-Grained Modeling
Much of our knowledge of protein folding comes from experiments on polypeptides in dilute solutions or from theoretical models of isolated … more
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Water and Energy
Objective We synthesize and characterize catalytic nanoparticles and nanoparticle-enhanced membranes for more efficient water treatment and … more
Assessing NP EHS
Due to their small size, nanoparticles can enter living organisms in previously unforeseen ways and their immense surface area results in higher … more
Medical Device Reliability
The growing sophistication of electronic medical devices results in two broad benefits for both individuals and society: improved survivability in … more
Legacy Project - Fate of Nanoparticles in Neural Environments
Our goal is to develop an advanced in vitro system for nano-neurotoxicology that employs neural progenitor cells and tissue-engineering hydrogels. … more Software
NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator Software
The NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which calculates the mass of an input peptide or protein sequence along … more
Isotope Enrichment Calculator
The NIST Isotope Enrichment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which determines the percentage of 15 N enrichment of stable … more
NIST's Integrated colony enumerator (NICE)
Enumeration of bacterial colonies on an agar plate is simple in concept, but automated colony counting is difficult due to variations in colony … more |
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