NIST Releases Trove of Genetic Data to Spur Cancer Research Summary NIST has released a comprehensive, multi-terabyte genomic dataset from a pancreatic cancer cell line whose donor explicitly consented to…
NIST’s Alex Maranghides Receives Service to America Medal Article Date: 2025-07-17 Summary Alexander (Alex) Maranghides of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named a 2025 Samuel…
NIST Makes First Detection of Cannabis in Breath From Edibles Summary Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus,…
NIST Consortium and Draft Guidelines Aim to Improve Security in Software Development Summary The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), via its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), has…
New NIST Reference Material to Strengthen Quality Control for Biological Drugs Summary NIST has released SRM 1989: Monodisperse Irregularly Shaped Epoxy-Based Particles, a new standard reference material designed to help…
NIST Finalises ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Standard to Protect Small Devices Summary NIST has published its Ascon-based lightweight cryptography standard (NIST SP 800-232) to secure resource-constrained devices such as IoT endpoints, RFID…
New Technique for Measuring DNA Damage Could Improve Cancer Therapy and Radiological Emergency Response Summary NIST researchers have developed a nanopore-based method that detects radiation-induced DNA damage quickly and with…
NIST Revises Security and Privacy Control Catalog to Improve Software Update and Patch Releases Summary NIST has finalised updates to its Security and Privacy Controls catalogue (SP 800-53), aimed at…
Some Air Cleaners Release Harmful By-Products. Now We Have a Way to Measure Them. Summary NIST has led the development of a new, consensus ASTM test method that reliably measures…
NIST’s ‘Living Reference Material’ Could Accelerate R&D of Lifesaving Biological Drugs Summary NIST, working with MilliporeSigma and NIIMBL, has released a living reference material called NISTCHO: clonal Chinese hamster ovary…
