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Methods and Measurements for Emerging Contaminants
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Regulatory and health agencies within the US, Canada, and countries within Europe are continuously identifying compounds of suspected carcinogenic … more
Trophic Transfer of Nanoparticles in a Simplified Invertebrate Food Web
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 We demonstrated that carboxylated and biotinylated quantum dots (QDs) can be transferred to higher trophic organisms (rotifers) through dietary … more
Superresolving Optical Microscopy
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and … more
Next-Generation Metrology for Drug Delivery Systems
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 A critical metrology issue for pharmaceutical industries is the application of analytical techniques to the characterization of drug delivery … more
Site-Specific Bioimaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 In collaboration with scientists at the Laboratory for Cell Biology (LCB) within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of … more
3D Molecular Bioimaging Mass Spectrometry
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 In recent years, the use of cluster primary ion projectiles for organic secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has generated considerable interest … more
Depth Profiling of Drug Eluting Stent Coatings with Cluster SIMS
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 There is much excitement in the cardiology community about drug eluting stents (DES), a promising new treatment for coronary artery disease. A … more
Protein Preservation
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to address critical measurement issues that exist regarding chemical and physical stability of biomacromolecules (proteins and DNA) in … more
Bioimaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to develop methods and materials for imaging-based characterization of molecular signatures that occur during cellular proliferation, … more
Thermophysical Properties of Biofuels
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 The Thermophysical Properties Division has begun a program to develop thermophysical property data for the biofuels. Transportation fuels will … more
Microcryocooler for Terahertz Detectors
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 NIST and the University of Colorado have been funded since April, 2006, by DARPA to develop a microcryocooler with a volume less than about 4 cm 3 … more
Metrologies for Protein Structure, Function, and Modeling
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 NIST researchers in the Macromolecular Structure and Function Group are involved in a joint research program with scientists from the University … more
New Scalable Green Protocols for Processing Carbon Nanotubes
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 The overall aim of this project is to develop and validate general methods and protocols for purification, size-separation and dispersion of … more
Certification of a Standard Reference Material for BK viral load
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 BK virus originally described in 1971 [1] is common but generally asymptomatic in adults [2] . more
Development of SRMs for Serum Proteomics
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Serum proteomics, the detection and measurement of as many proteins in a serum sample as possible, could be an important element of personalized … more |
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