By 2050, the global population will reach 10 billion people, requiring a 60 percent increase in worldwide agricultural productivity. At the same time, available farmland will continue to shrink. If we ... Read More
St. Louis, Missouri-based agtech startup NRGene is partnering with Bridgestone Americas to increase the U.S. supply of natural rubber. The two companies will work to sequence and assemble genomes of guayule, ... Read More
St. Louis County, Missouri, recently earned Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) status bringing the total number of fully certified counties in Missouri to 51. CWRC is an American College Testing (ACT) ... Read More
Missouri was recently ranked third in the U.S. for healthcare openness and accessibility, according to a study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Missouri ranked highly in flexibility with ... Read More
St. Louis, Missouri-based health innovation startup, SentiAR, has been rewarded a $2.2 million federal grant to advance research on technology that can create holograms of a patient’s heart. The company has ... Read More
St. Louis, Missouri-based Washington University School of Medicine recently announced it signed a strategic partnership with Israel-based MDClone to connect data from across the BJC HealthCare system for use by researchers ... Read More
Cerner Corp., a Missouri-based health innovation company, announced it is expanding its workforce in Kansas City with plans to add 600 new employees. The company announced the new jobs will support ... Read More
CB Insights recently named Benson Hill BioSystems, a St. Louis, Missouri-based agtech company, as one of the 100 most promising companies using artificial intelligence. The list was selected from a pool ... Read More
Missouri’s health innovation companies are transforming the health care industry and how it interacts with patients globally. We are the home of the world’s first virtual care center, driven by the ... Read More
Aptimmune Biologics, an animal health company that specializes in creating swine vaccines, is relocating its headquarters and laboratory to the Bio-Research & Development Growth Park in St. Louis, Missouri’s 39 North ... Read More