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Structure of Key Enzyme in Plague Bacterium Found
Release Date: 08/17/2006 Ribbon rendering of the structure of AC-IV in Yersina pestis as determined at NIST. The enzyme is a dimer (two identical subunits around a … more
Workshop Addresses Imaging Technology in Therapeutics
Release Date: 08/03/2006 Increasingly, medical and pharmaceutical researchers are looking to biomedical imaging as a tool to track disease progress, speed drug discovery … more
Links Between DNA Damage and Breast Cancer Studied
Release Date: 08/03/2006 Researchers from the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered a … more
Neuronal Cell Cultures Kept on the Straight and Narrow
Release Date: 05/25/2006 An improved technique for culturing cells, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may enable new, fundamental … more
Precision Biochemistry Tracks DNA Damage in Fish
Release Date: 05/12/2006 Like coal-mine canaries, fish DNA can serve as a measure of the biological impact of water and sediment pollution—or pollution clean-up. … more
NIST and NCI to Collaborate On Proteomics Assessment
Release Date: 05/12/2006 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health have begun … more
Measurement and Standards Issues in Nanobiotechnology
Release Date: 12/22/2005 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will co-host a workshop to discuss needed measurement technologies and standards in the … more
Consortium Seeks Comment on Gene Expression Roadmap
Release Date: 08/26/2005 The External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC) has issued for comment a draft plan for the selection and qualification of candidate RNA sequences, to … more
Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation Infrastructure
Release Date: 08/26/2005 Industry executives, research managers, academics and science policy decision makers are invited to attend The Industrial Physics Forum on Nov. … more
Conference to Highlight New Biometric Technologies
Release Date: 08/26/2005 The Biometrics Consortium Conference 2005 will address the latest trends in research, development, testing and application of biometric … more
Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
Release Date: 07/26/2005 In cancer research, biomarkers are molecules that indicate the presence of cancer in the body. Most are based on abnormal changes or mutations in … more
New Gene Chip May Be Early Cancer Diagnosis Tool
Release Date: 06/16/2005 A pilot study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection … more
NIST Study Shows Computerized Fingerprint Matching Is Highly Accurate
Release Date: 07/06/2004 Computerized systems that automatically match fingerprints have become so sophisticated that the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of … more
Keeping Drugs Stable Without Refrigeration
Release Date: 06/16/2004 A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but it may take only a thin coating of freeze-dried sugar to keep insulin, vaccines and other … more
Using Mitochondrial DNA as a Cancer Biomarker
Release Date: 10/30/2002 The ghostly image above shows a subdividing cell treated with a fluorescent stain that is selectively absorbed by mitochondria. As part of a … more |
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