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Health

Pharmaceuticals

News and Updates

Blog Posts

Thomas Forbes wears safety glasses as he looks at the screen attached to a piece of equipment in the lab.

Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer

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A medical worker wears gloves as she prepares to swab the nose of a female patient.

Measuring the Accuracy of PCR Tests Can Improve Health Care Beyond COVID-19

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

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Events

Conceptual illustration of cells, a flow cytometry stream, automation and collaboration with logos for NIST and NIAID underneath.

AI and Flow Cytometry Workshop

Mon, Jun 9 - Tue, Jun 10 2025
A NIST–FDA–NIAID Co-Organized Workshop This workshop aims to advance AI/ML applications in flow cytometry and related
Genome editing technologies

Genome Editing Consortium Workshop

Thu, Jun 12 - Fri, Jun 13 2025
The purpose of this workshop is to share and obtain feedback on current and future activities of the NIST Genome Editing

Projects and Programs

Research Grade Testing Material (RGTM 10212), Synthetic Fecal Metabolite Calibrant (Credit: NIST)

Synthetic Fecal Metabolite Calibrant Solution (RGTM 10212)

Ongoing
Metabolomics is an exciting and dynamic field in life sciences that harnesses cutting-edge technologies to identify and characterize small molecules, or metabolites, within cells, tissues, or organisms, collectively known as the metabolome. The wealth of evidence in the literature underscores the

Orthogonal Measurements

Ongoing
Definitions: Orthogonal measurements: Measurements that use different physical principles to measure the same property of the same sample with the goal of minimizing method-specific biases and interferences. Complementary measurements: Measurements that corroborate each other to support the same
A schematic overview showing the distribution of the standardized samples to study participants, the use of standardized protocols for measurements, and standardized reporting of data back to NIST for analysis.

AAPS Interlaboratory Study: Protein Aggregation and Immunogenicity

Ongoing
To ensure the safety and efficacy of protein-based biotherapeutics, manufacturers strive to avoid unwanted immune responses caused by the biotherapeutic. Protein immunogenicity is a complex topic and depends on multiple factors related to the product, patient profile, and treatment. 1 , 2
Example unit of NIST Research Grade Test Material (RGTM) 10197 NISTCHO Test Material

NISTCHO

Ongoing
NISTCHO, a new mammalian cell line of interest to the biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing communities, is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line has been engineered by MilliporeSigma to express a non-originator version of

Publications

Recommendations on fit-for-purpose criteria to establish a quality management for microphysiological systems (MPS) and for monitoring of their reproducibility

Author(s)
David Pamies, Jason Ekert, Marie-Gabrielle Zurich, Olivier Frey, Sophie Werner, MONICA PIERGIOVANNI, Benjamin Freedman, Adrian Keong, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Hendrik Erfurth, Peter Loskill, Pelin Candarlioglu, Shan Wang, Thomas Hartung, Sandra Coecke, Glyn Stacey, Marcel Leist
Cell culture technology has seen great innovations and progress in the 21st centuryClassical single-cell and monolayer models have been replaced by more complex