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Washington University cancer researchers get grant

Two Washington University researchers, Emily Cheng and Ellen Langer, recently won a combined $870,000 in research grants from the American Cancer Society. They join 15 other current grant recipients in the ... Read More

Missouri Program Fosters Culture of Innovation in Youth

When a company looks at expanding into a new area one of the first things they look at is the availability of highly skilled talent.  Companies want employees who are hard ... Read More

Washington University brain center gets $3.8M

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said Tuesday it landed a five-year, $3.8 million federal grant for a center that helps researchers collect and use data on the brain ... Read More

Washington U., St. Jude team on $65M pediatric cancer genome project

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis are teaming up to sequence the genomes of 600 children with pediatric cancer in the hope ... Read More

Washington U. wins $13 million Gates Foundation health grant

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $13 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help eliminate elephantiasis and river blindness. The parasitic ... Read More

Viasystems buys Merix

Viasystems Group Inc. says it has completed its purchase of Merix Corp. in a deal that gives St. Louis one more publicly-traded company. Viasystems, based in Clayton, was privately held. Beaverton, ... Read More

Vedanta to buy Anglo American zinc assets

Vedanta Resources PLC said Monday it has acquired the zinc assets of Anglo American PLC, creating the world’s largest zinc and lead producer. The deal, valued at $1.34 billion, follows Anglo’s ... Read More

Utah cavern to be used for energy storage

A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and ... Read More

US wind potential higher than previously estimated

New wind potential estimates for the lower 48 states based on windNavigator, AWS Truewind’s high-resolution wind resource dataset have been released. The estimates were produced in collaboration with the National Renewable ... Read More

University of Missouri researchers detect cancer through laser-induced ultrasound

To determine if there is cancer in one’s lymph nodes, a typically advanced stage requiring more aggressive treatment, pathologists are stuck performing several specific, detailed tests that may or may not ... Read More