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Chemical Giant Asahi Kasei to Buy Zoll

CEO of Asahi Kasei says U.S. leads world in medical device business both in size and technological innovation, so establishing a strong infrastructure in the U.S. is an important step for ... Read More

MRIGlobal forms new health and security unit

MRIGlobal has formed a new operating unit for global health and security. The life sciences unit will focus on drug development, biosurveillance, diagnostics and food safety for the Kansas City-based research ... Read More

Ten Emerging-Technology Innovators to Watch in 2012

From ‘torrefaction’ to ‘nanobodies,’ leading-edge technology is at the core of these firms’ business models. more ... Read More

Polymer Supplier to Medical Device Industry Expands

Biomerics adds new medical and Pharm compounding lines. more ... Read More

National Sales Co. opens new distribution and sales center

National Sales Co. today opened its new distribution and sales center at its headquarters located within McEagle Properties’ NorthSide Regeneration project at 1533 Delmar Blvd. in St. Louis. The 100,000-square-foot facility ... Read More

Five Missouri companies included in Most Admired List

Emerson Electric, Express Scripts, Cerner, Graybar Electric and Jones Financial (Edward Jones) have made Fortune magazine’s 2012 Most Admired Companies list. Express Scripts, the largest public company based in St. Louis ... Read More

InvestMidwest picks 12 St. Louis firms to present

Twelve St. Louis-area companies have been selected to present their stories to potential investors at this year’s InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum. Organizers of the annual event, which will be April 4-5 ... Read More

Missouri S&T wins award for ‘smart’ grid research

Two computer science students at the Missouri University of Science and Technology are being honored for their “smart” electric power grid research. The Rolla school says doctoral student Tom Roth, of ... Read More

Kansas City offers data centers an affordable, reliable port

The Boyd Co., based in Princeton, N.J., has ranked Kansas City No. 20 in a study of the annual operating costs for a data security center in the nation’s 45 largest ... Read More

With UM System funding, new biotech firms take root in Columbia

In the face of proposed budget cuts, the University of Missouri System is taking a do-it-yourself approach to statewide economic recovery. The tactic is entrepreneurial and pragmatic. Short on jobs? Make ... Read More