Editorial Article: NEW SelectScience® Seals of Quality Help Scientists Select the Best Lab Products

The new SelectScience^® Seals of Quality 

SelectScience is proud to announce the first recipients of the new SelectScience Seal of Quality program, recognizing the products that have consistently received the highest review ratings. This program will further assist scientists in making important purchasing decisions.

The new Seals are assigned to approximately 0.1 % of products on the SelectScience website and are allocated in line with strict criteria based on the quantity of reviews a product has received and the average rating of those reviews. There are four levels of Seals: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze. 

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Kerry Parker, Editor-in-Chief, SelectScience

Peer validation

“We are thrilled to announce this new program in order to help scientists see at a glance the top rated products on the market – in the eyes of their peers. This kind of peer validation can only help when it comes to accelerating successful laboratory work.” said SelectScience Editor-in-Chief Kerry Parker. “This program also provides valuable feedback to the manufacturers in our industry.”

The products recognized in this first tranche of Seal of Quality winners are used in vital research right across the scientific spectrum, though just one company — GATC Biotech — has so far attained the highest level of Seal, Platinum. 

Among the manufacturers celebrating their new Seal of Quality this month is DeNovix Inc., which scooped two of the new accolades in Gold.

The full list of the first 28 scientific products to be recognized with a SelectScience® Seal of Quality are:

Platinum:

• GATC: LIGHTRUN
• GATC: SUPREMERUN

Gold:

• Biostatus Limited: DRAQ5
• Denovix Inc.: DS-11 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer & FX+ Spectrophotometer / Fluorometer
• Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories Inc.: Whole IgG Affinity-Purified Secondary Antibodies
• Phenomenex Inc.: Kinetex Core-Shell HPLC/UHPLC Columns

Silver:

• Agilent Technologies: Agilent 1200 Infinity Series LC
• Alere Inc.: C. DIFF QUIK CHEK COMPLETE®
• BioTek Instruments, Inc.: Gen5 Data Microplate Reader and Imager Software
• LI-COR Biosciences: Odyssey® CLx Infrared Imaging System
• Peak Scientific Instruments: Service Offering: Complete Plan
• Waters: Waters Alliance® HPLC System
• Wyatt Technology Corp.: DAWN HELEOS II Multi-Angle Light Scattering Detector

Bronze:

• Alere Inc.:  Alere™ i Instrument
• Beckman Coulter: Biomek FX^p Laboratory Workstation
• Bertin Instruments: Precellys® Evolution
• Eppendorf: Eppendorf Research® Plus Pipette (adjustable)
• Erlab Inc.: Erlab Ductless Fume Hoods
• Essen BioScience: IncuCyte S3™ Continuous Live-cell Imaging & Analysis System
• Malvern Instruments: Mastersizer 3000
• MilliporeSigma: Milli-Q® Integral Laboratory Water Purification System
• QIAGEN: RNeasy Midi Kit (50)
• Tecan: Tecan Freedom EVO® Workstation
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: NanoDrop™ 2000/c Spectrophotometers
• Waters Corporation: ACQUITY UPLC System
• Zymo Research: Direct-zol™ RNA MiniPrep
• Zymo Research: Zyppy™ Plasmid Miniprep Kit

Seal of Quality recipients will be selected quarterly and dated by the year in which they are attained. The SelectScience^® Editors retain the right to update the Seals of Quality program and allocated products at any time.

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