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The latest group of winning technologies has a little something for everyone—from scientists at the lab bench to those in the clinic and even the classroom.

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Dream Big and Achieve Real-Time Single Cell Imaging Without Camera Limitations

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Alpine and Arctic Microbes Break Down Plastics

2022 Top 10 Innovations 

2022 Top 10 Innovations

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Last Chance to Enter Our Annual Top 10 Innovations Contest

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A Brave New World for Spatial Genomics in Cancer Research

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Stanford to Launch New Climate Change School This Fall

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The Scientist Speaks - Preventing the Next Pandemic With Organ Chips

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Biophysicist Howard Berg Dies at 87

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Altruism in Birds? Magpies Have Outwitted Scientists by Helping Each Other Remove Tracking Devices

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Researchers Train Goldfish to “Drive”

Great Minds Don't Think Alike

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Great Minds Don't Think Alike

Opinion: Bridging the Intellectual Divide

Top 10 Innovations 2021

2021 Top 10 Innovations

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Prosthetic Device Partially Restores Blind Biology Teacher’s Vision

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Keeping Pace With SARS-CoV-2 Evolution

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US Senate Passes Bill for Nearly $250 Billion in Science Funding

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Experts Predict the Hottest Life Science Tech in 2021 and Beyond

The Scientist Speaks Podcast - Episode 12

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Top Technical Advances of 2020

2020 Top 10 Innovations

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What are the Risks and Benefits of a Cold Plunge?

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Mitochondrial DNA: A Maternal Legacy That Helps Trace the Past and Diagnose the Future

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Why Do Some Women Crave Chocolate Before Their Period?

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Transform Omics Workflows with Scalable Cell Prep

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Accelerating Cancer Research Through Comprehensive Genomic Analysis

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Study Confirms Safety of Genetically Modified T Cells

A long-term study of nearly 800 patients demonstrated a strong safety profile for T cells engineered with viral vectors.

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TaqMan Probe & Assays: Unveil What's Possible Together

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Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

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Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

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Making Real-Time PCR More Straightforward

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Biotium Launches New Phalloidin Conjugates with Extended F-actin Staining Stability for Greater Imaging Flexibility

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Latest AI software simplifies image analysis and speeds up insights for scientists

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BioSkryb Genomics and Tecan introduce a single-cell multiomics workflow for sequencing-ready libraries in under ten hours

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Agilent BioTek Cytation C10 Confocal Imaging Reader

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