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University of Missouri researcher and professor M. Frederick Hawthorne developed a breakthrough cancer treatment using a new form of radiation, which put cancer cells in remission in mice.   Read More...

MU Professor of Plant Science Grover Shannon breeds soybeans to find useful traits, such as drought resistance.    Read More...

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The number of life sciences companies in the region has increased by 17 percent in the past three years, according to a study released the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute Inc. released Thursday
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Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics received a $1 million grant to help establish the world’s first genome center in a children’s hospital, the hospital said in a release on Monday.   Read More...

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Tom Brutnell and Todd Mockler, researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, have launched an agricultural biotech start-up focused on improving intrinsic crop yield.   Read More...

Lee Biosolutions Inc. has expanded its line of biomarkers to include products used to track testicular cancer.   Read More...

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $50 million federal grant aimed at helping researches turn scientific discoveries into ways to improve human health.   Read More...

Owned by MU and operated by the Missouri Innovation Center, the MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place opened in January 2009.   Read More...

Hazelwood-based Mallinckrodt, the pharmaceuticals business of Covidien, announced a definitive agreement to acquire CNS Therapeutics Inc. for $100 million.   Read More...

BASF, the world's largest chemical company, is buying Iowa seed treatment company Becker Underwood from Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion. German-based BASF is making the purchase to boost its farming pesticides division, Reuters reports. In spring 2011, analysts had speculated that BASF eyed Monsanto as a takeover target, but sources also told Reuters BASF had no current plans to buy the St. Louis-based seed tech company.   Read More...

The Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) today announced  investments in two St. Louis-based start-up companies through its TechLaunch program.   Read More...

A massive biotech office park in south Kansas City long planned by James Stowers III is finally ready to move forward.   Read More...

The National Cancer Institute has awarded MRIGlobal a five-year, $3.8 million contract to analyze potential drugs in the fight against cancer.   Read More...

Mallinckrodt, the Hazelwood-based pharmaceuticals business being spun off from Covidien, said it has entered a co-promotion agreement with Horizon Pharma Inc. to promote Duexis, a proprietary single-tablet combination of ibuprofen and famotidine used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. The deal calls for Mallinckrodt's U.S. sales force to sell Duexis through Dec. 31, 2014. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed.   Read More...

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 debris everywhere is another big clue.   Read More...

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 kill cancer cells, all at once, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the New York Botanical Garden, today announced plans to develop the World Flora, the first modern, online catalog of the world’s plants.
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