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Experts Predict the Hottest Life Science Tech in 2021 and Beyond
Last year’s Top 10 Innovations judges look into their crystal balls.
Experts Predict the Hottest Life Science Tech in 2021 and Beyond
Experts Predict the Hottest Life Science Tech in 2021 and Beyond

Last year’s Top 10 Innovations judges look into their crystal balls.

Last year’s Top 10 Innovations judges look into their crystal balls.

technology, genetics & genomics

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What A Long, Strange Decade It’s Been
Bob Grant | Dec 20, 2019 | 5 min read
For the past 10 years, life science has moved us closer to a complete understanding of what makes us human—our similarities, our differences, and our shared history.
UC Berkeley Team to Be Awarded CRISPR Patent
Kerry Grens | Feb 11, 2019 | 2 min read
The group had argued that a patent given to the Broad Institute overlapped with this one.
Massive Animal Sequencing Effort Releases First Set of Genomes
Jef Akst | Sep 13, 2018 | 2 min read
The Vertebrate Genomes Project has released data on 14 vertebrate species, but the goal is to sequence all 66,000.
New Methods to Detect CRISPR Off-Target Mutations
Sandeep Ravindran | Mar 1, 2018 | 7 min read
Researchers have developed a variety of techniques to detect when CRISPR misses the mark.
Optogenetics Meets CRISPR
Jef Akst | Jun 15, 2015 | 2 min read
Researchers in Japan have developed a photoactivatable Cas9 nuclease to control CRISPR-based gene editing with the flip of a switch.
TS Live: Genetic Time Machine
Bob Grant | Jun 12, 2015 | 1 min read
Piecing together scraps of DNA from a 400,000-year-old hominin femur
Fast Worms
Kerry Grens | Jan 1, 2013 | 2 min read
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Genomics Boom Continues
Jef Akst | Apr 16, 2012 | 1 min read
A new report estimates that the genomics research tools market will be worth nearly $9 billion by 2016.
2011's Best and Brightest
The Scientist | Jan 1, 2012 | 1 min read
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. 
Top Ten Innovations 2011
The Scientist | Jan 1, 2012 | 10+ min read
Our list of the best and brightest products that 2011 had to offer the life scientist
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