3.3K views · 13 reactions | Get a sneak peek inside the NIST Living Measurement Systems Foundry (nicknamed the Biofoundry). This automated, cool tool grows, tests and measures engineered microbes. Read more about the Biofoundry with this brief project background: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nist-living-measurement-systems-foundry | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Facebook

Look inside a lab! Today’s step behind the scenes is split between two floors of a building on NIST’s campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. We’re seeing the massive equipment that comes together to form the NIST one million pounds-force deadweight machine. You read that name right. This machine can create up to 4.45 meganewtons (1 million pounds) of force, thanks to its 20 stainless-steel disks. A hydraulic-powered system on the floor above can lift and lower the stack of disks. Our researchers (suc