MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The StepOne™ Real-time PCR System from Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, was recently awarded Best New Life Science Product for 2007. The award was presented by SelectScience.net, a leading online resource for life scientists and chemists, which polled more than 40,000 members of the worldwide scientific community to nominate their favorite life science products during the past year. The award was presented at Analytica 2008, the leading international trade fair for analytics, laboratory technology, biotechnology and the life sciences.