Life Sciences and General Lab Scientists’ Choice Awards 2025 winners announced

The world’s most innovative and effective technologies advancing life sciences have been recognized in the latest release of the 2025 Scientists’ Choice Awards^®.

Each year, SelectScience^® invites its scientist readers and members from around the globe to participate by nominating, reviewing, and voting for the lab products that have had the greatest impact on their work. Read on to reveal your chosen winners.

Best New Life Sciences Product of 2024

The award for Best New Life Sciences Product of 2024 goes to the LUNA-III™ Automated Cell Counter by Logos Biosystems, as voted for by scientists around the world. The LUNA-III™ provides accuracy with advanced algorithms, precise autofocusing, reusable slides, non-toxic dyes, network access, re-analysis options, and a compact, user-friendly design.

The runners up are:

• Maestro Volt by Axion BioSystem
• ChemiDoc Go by Bio-Rad
• CellDrop™ FLi Automated Cell Counter by DeNovix
• SuperMethyl™ Fast Bisulfite Conversion Kit by Ellis Bio
• SpectraPlex 3D High-Multiplex Solution for Spatial Discoveries by Leica Microsystems
• GelCount 2 by Oxford Optronix
• MyGlo™ Reagent Reader by Promega Corp.
• Freezing Medium Cryo-SFM Plus by PromoCell
• QIAseq Multimodal DNA/RNA Library Kit by QIAGEN
• Shasta™ Single-Cell System by Takara Bio

Best New General Lab Product of 2024

The award for Best New General Lab Product of 2024 goes to the Milli-Q^® SQ 2Series Water Purification Systems by Merck. These new water purification systems are simple, robust, innovative and completely scalable, so they can be integrated into any laboratory setup.

The runners up are:

• Amplify Rigid PCR Plates by Alpha Laboratories
• epMotion^® 96 Flex by Eppendorf
• XPR Essential Balances by METTLER TOLEDO
• Quintix^® Pro Lab Balances by Sartorius Group
• The Starlab Vortex Mixer by Starlab

Reviewers' Choice Life Sciences Company of the Year

NanoEntek has been awarded the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Life Sciences Company of the Year. The award recognizes the consistent positive feedback its products have received in the past year from scientists worldwide via SelectScience product reviews.

Life Sciences Webinar of the Year

This year’s Webinar of the Year is awarded to 10x Genomics for the webinar titled, Advancing neurodegeneration research with single-cell and spatial multiomics. During this presentation, Agnieszka Ciesielska, Science and Technology Advisor, 10x Genomics, explores how single-cell and spatial technologies provide a multidimensional view of biology that can lead to groundbreaking insights into Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Life Sciences Editorial Article of the Year

The winning article is titled ‘London’s Natural History Museum transforms molecular research' and features technology from SPT Labtech. In this article, Yuen Ting Chan, Senior Automation Specialist and Molecular Biologist, and Dr. Piotr Cuber, Senior Molecular Biologist and Robotics Specialist, from NHM's Molecular Laboratories, share how advanced automation and robotics are enabling these labs to push the boundaries of research to analyze the genetic makeup of ancient species and modern ecosystems.

Life Sciences Application eBook of the Year

The Life Sciences Application eBook of the Year Award goes to Tecan for ‘Unlock AI-driven 2D and 3D cell analysis’. This application compendium presents an in-depth analysis of how advances in cell-based technology are bringing higher levels of automation, reproducibility, and flexibility to cell-based research.

Life Sciences Video of the Year – in partnership with The Scientists' Channel^®

This year’s winning video is awarded to a presentation titled ‘The dynamic future of ADCs in oncology' produced in collaboration with Cytiva. In this interview, Dr. Alejandro D. Ricart, discusses the exciting advancements in antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for treating cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumors.

Life Sciences Email of the Year

The winner in the Email of the Year category goes to Molecular Devices^® for an email that highlights its cell imaging assays guide. The free eBook demonstrates how you can streamline and simplify complex cell assays; giving you rich, high-content data quickly and easily.

Life Sciences Innovative Content of the Year

The winner in the Innovative Content category goes to ‘How to troubleshoot microplate assays and optimize detection with your microplate reader' produced in associate with BMG LABTECH. The content hub is an in-depth exploration of how to fine-tune microplate reader settings to align with specific microplate features, backed by evidence on how these adjustments directly influence data quality.

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