The Scientist Top Innovations of 2008

The Scientist Top Innovations of 2008 For the first time, we laud the ten most outstanding new products to hit the life science market. The life sciences move fast. Across the globe, companies are constantly churning out new products that they say will make your research smarter. For six years, we've ranked the vendors of life science equipment in our Life Science Industry Awards. Now, to recognize winning combinations of invention, vision and

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The Scientist Top Innovations of 2008

The life sciences move fast. Across the globe, companies are constantly churning out new products that they say will make your research smarter.

For six years, we've ranked the vendors of life science equipment in our Life Science Industry Awards. Now, to recognize winning combinations of invention, vision and utility, we present our first-ever ranking of the best innovations to hit the life science market in the past year.

We asked a panel of expert judges to sort through the year's offerings and pick the ones likely to have the biggest impact. Our judges—David Piston, Simon Watkins, Klaus Hahn, and Steven Wiley—are all known for pushing the technical boundaries, and have collectively published more than 700 scholarly articles.

The winning technologies will either make your work easier (and cheaper) or push you into new frontiers, letting you visualize and capture molecular processes that were ...

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