innovation, cell & molecular biology

This year’s list of winners celebrates both large leaps and small (but important) steps in life science technology.

Since their introduction to the lab, pluripotent stem cells have gone from research tool to therapeutic, but the journey has been rocky.

Advances in genetic manipulation have simplified the once daunting task of rewriting a gene.

Since The Scientist published its first issue in October 1986, life-science research has transformed from a manual and often tedious task to a high-tech, largely automated process of unprecedented efficiency.

The Scientist’s annual competition uncovered a bonanza of interesting technologies that made their way onto the market and into labs this year.

In its brief, 4-year history, The Scientist’s annual Top 10 Innovations contest has become a showcase of the coolest life science tools to emerge in the previous year. 

Our list of the best and brightest products that 2011 had to offer the life scientist