Yearly Archives: 2012

Monsanto to buy Precision Planting in $250 million deal

Monsanto Co. said today that it has agreed to buy Precision Planting Inc., a planting technology developer, in a deal worth up to $250 million. Tremont, Ill.-based Precision Planting develops software, ... Read More

Washington University receives $3 million to design cancer-killing viruses

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a single virus equipped to find, image and ... Read More

Missouri home to 14 of America’s Best High Schools

Fourteen Missouri schools were included in the Daily Beast’s list of America’s Best High Schools for 2012. The list is based on six components provided by school administrators: graduation rate (25 ... Read More

U.S. News and World Report awards gold medals to 4 Missouri high schools

U.S. News & World Report announced last week that four Missouri schools ranked among the best high schools in the nation based on academic proficiency standards and college preparation. The nationally ... Read More

Canada’s CGI Buys Logica

Canadian information-technology services provider CGI agreed to buy embattled Anglo-Dutch rival Logica for £1.7 billion as it seeks to expand its global footprint. Read More… ... Read More

Interstate 70/435 project enters final phase

Missouri is wrapping up the final piece of a two-year, $39 million reconstruction of the Interstates 70 and 435 interchange — a new ramp from U.S. Highway 40 onto northbound I-435, ... Read More

SunEdison to install solar power plants in Indian villages

Officials from SunEdison, a solar energy services provider and subsidiary of St. Peters-based MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR), said Wednesday that SunEdison will design, install and manage distributed-generation solar power ... Read More

Belden to buy Miranda Technologies for $357 million

St. Louis-based cable maker Belden Inc. has agreed to buy Miranda Technologies Inc. of Canada for an all-cash offer of CA$17 per share, or about US$357 million. The acquisition will increase ... Read More

St. Louis Children’s Hospital ranked in Best Children’s Hospitals report

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is ranked on the U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals for the tenth consecutive year, the hospital said Tuesday. Only twelve childrens ... Read More

Helix Center Biotech Incubator hopes to nurture life science start-ups

With the sounds of drills and hammers ringing in the background, it doesn’t take long to realize that the Helix Center Biotech Incubator is still a work in progress. The construction ... Read More