BiotechMashup

Finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. However a new technique can reliably detect biochemical changes in a decomposing cadaver.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding flaws. A tutorial on using the tool accompanies the new release.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) A National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland research team has defined the workings of NIST technique for making liquid-filled vesicles called liposomes, "fat bubbles" that may one day be used to precisely deliver drugs within the body. The new insight could help make a microchip-scale liposome manufacturing process practical.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) New insights into the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection process, which leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), may now be possible through a research method recently developed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have glimpsed an important protein molecule's behavior with unprecedented clarity.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Physicists at NIST have used a small crystal of ions to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists have moved a step closer to developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that can scan for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of health.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) As a result of a major inter-laboratory study co-managed by NIST and the National Cancer Institute, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed their own version of this classic Slinky "walking down the stairs" scenario -- albeit 10 million times smaller -- as a novel technology for manipulating and measuring DNA molecules and other nanoscale materials.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) The world's largest submillimeter camera -- based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway parts never seen before.