2009 Top 10 Innovations from The Scientist

The Scientist published their list of the top 10 innovations in the life sciences from 2009. Check out these tools that will propel scientific innovation and progress to come!

• Cell Culture in 3D: The benchtop BioLevitator
• New recipe for Protein Expression from DNA2.0
• New measure of metabolism: mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis
• New sequence capture tool: HybSelect
• All-in-one microscopes combining illumination systems, microscopes, movable stages, and cameras
• Zinc fingers create knockout rats
  • Read more about this technology right here on PD Online, including a Q&A with Dr. Edward Weinstein of Sigma.
• A camera that quantifies photoelectrons
• Using light to manipulate cells with molecular precision
  
  • Dr. Karl Diesseroth discusses using optogenetics to study PD circuitry on PD Online.
• Quick pathogen identification
• Pluripotency from proteins - wihtout genetic modification
  • Check out discussion of induced pluripotent stem cells and PD therapeutics here.

Read the full article from The Scientist here!