The Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology unites academic, government and industrial researchers in an effort to spur the already booming bio-economy by providing useful definitions of the equivalent of weights and measures for the molecular products and processes made possible by genomics and genetic engineering.
Composite image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 showing the distorted image of the more distant galaxy (red arcs) and the nearby lensing galaxy (blue center object). By analyzing the distortions in the ring, astronomers have determined that a dark dwarf galaxy (data indicated by white dot near left lower arc segment) is lurking nearly 4 billion light-years away. (Image credit: Y. Hezaveh; ALMA)
(Image credit: Stanford University)
Manish Butte and colleagues in engineering have developd a way to rapidly map cells by making a major advancement in atomic force microscopy, a technology invented at Stanford. (Photo: Norbert von der Groeben)
A new microscope could provide unique insights into treating muscular degenerative diseases.