A Mission to Pursue the Unsolvable

The Frederick National Laboratory is meeting the nation’s most urgent biomedical research needs and serves as a national and global resource for the scientific community. 

Symposium: 2023 Technology Showcase Highlights How Partnerships Move the Science Forward

With 100 online attendees, 180 in-person participants, 15 posters, 16 technologies, and 45 speakers, the 2023 Technology...

Public-private partnerships key to equality and equity in research

The Frederick National Laboratory’s partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) came into focus at...

Long-term data paint clearer pictures of antibody levels and potency against SARS-CoV-2

After three years of COVID-19, science has learned much about the disease and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2. But in...

Performance varies widely in commercial and in-house COVID-19 blood antibody tests

Many different blood tests are available for the COVID-19 virus to detect infection and to evaluate antibody responses...
HIV/AIDS Research

Case study links inflammation to HIV persistence in specific scenarios

A years-long case study has potentially identified another factor with which HIV treatment efforts must contend: Inflammation...
Cancer Research

End of NCI-MATCH trial positions precision medicine and genetic sequencing for next big push

NCI-MATCH, one of the largest cancer precision medicine clinical trials to date, closed in 2023 and its follow-on studies...
Drug Development

Faster workflows boost drug discovery in natural product-based screening

Plants, marine invertebrates, and microbes have been a major source of novel drugs against cancer, viruses, and fungal...
What is this?

Tissue slide ablated with a Fluidigm Hyperion Imaging System that performs high-dimensional proteomics analysis of fresh-frozen tissues, tissue microarrays, smeared and formalin-fixed cells, and paraffin-embedded tissue. The Imaging Mass Cytometry Laboratory generated this image as part of their work providing cancer researchers with high-dimensional imaging analysis of tumor tissue samples at subcellular resolution.

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Scientific Standards Hub

Our scientists establish standards and reference reagents for diverse scientific disciplines and encourage the adoption of benchmarks among researchers. 
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disciplines with tools to help bridge gaps in scientific reproducibility.

SeroNet

The Serological Sciences Network, or SeroNet, is a collaboration to enhance understanding of the immune response to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. SeroNet supports research projects in basic and applied serological research related to COVID-19 and increasing the nation’s serological testing capacity.
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U.S. SARS-CoV-2 Serology Standard requests from industry, government and academic laboratories worldwide.

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