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How Henrietta Lacks Changed My View of Human Cells as a Physicist

May 27, 2022

Greta Babakhanova

A NIST researcher has developed a whole different kind of appreciation for her samples.

Denis Bergeron working behind an L-shield with a syringe containing a radiopharmaceutical.

NIST Radioactivity Measurements Get the Ball Rolling for New Cancer Therapies

February 16, 2021

Denis Bergeron

From the earliest days of radioactivity research, radiation and cancer therapy have gone together like peas and carrots. But Zach Levine covered peas and carrots in an earlier blog post, so I will focus on radiation and cancer therapy. Shortly after Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the high-energy

various elements related to biology and flow cytometry. there is a field of cells, a biomanufacturing assembly line and a flow cytometry device

NIST Gets Going With the Flow Cytometry Standards Consortium

January 21, 2021

Advances in cell and gene therapies are revolutionizing health care by providing curative treatments for previously untreatable diseases. To help develop standards and measurements to support the discovery and manufacture of these groundbreaking therapies, NIST is launching the Flow Cytometry

the D squared M squared CM device in action. Red and green cells filter through membranes to meet in the middle of an X pattern.

Paving the Way for Electronic Organs-on-a-Chip

October 28, 2020

Darwin R. Reyes

It may sound like science fiction, but “organ on a chip” systems — devices capable of imitating the interaction of cells in a specific organ such as the lungs or liver — have begun to be used to test the effectiveness of drugs in the past few years. We use these systems to quantify the physical

artists rendition of human embryonic stem cells

Experts Next Door: How a Public-Private Partnership Benefits the Regenerative Medicine Community

September 21, 2020

Catherine (Katie) Zander

I’m a scientific program manager at the Standards Coordinating Body (SCB), a private nonprofit organization devoted to advancing standards for regenerative medicine, an emerging field that includes cell therapies, immunotherapies, tissue engineering and other next-generation treatments. Presently

The Rapid Microbial Testing Methods Consortium: Enabling Safe, Effective and Timely Advanced Therapies

August 14, 2020

Advanced therapies are poised to change the face of medicine, promising to cure diseases that have long resisted us. But there are many challenges to overcome before we can make full use of these life-saving therapies, including detecting microbial contamination quickly. We sat down with Nancy Lin

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