Enter Our 2021 Top 10 Innovations Contest

Submit your new product now to have a chance at being selected for a coveted spot in The Scientist’s 2021 competition.

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The Scientist’s annual Top 10 Innovations competition showcases the most clever and useful advances in life science techniques and products. From disruptive sequencing technology to transformational tweaks on tried-and-true methods, each year’s winners represent the vanguard technologies poised to propel biomedical research forward. We want to hear from you, whether you are an individual tinkering away at the bench or a company with a dedicated R&D team. What have you brought to market in the past year that could benefit the life sciences?

We started the Top 10 Innovations competition more than a decade ago, and over the years we’ve feted some pretty neat products. Last year, our independent panel of expert judges chose winning technologies that included a single-cell proteome analyzer, a desktop gene synthesizer, a rapid COVID-19 test, and a platform for characterizing glycans in the spike protein that studs the surface of SARS-CoV-2. As we’ve witnessed in ...

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