Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $14.3 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand its data center for genomics.   Read More...

Kansas City Power & Light is teaming up with the city of St. Joseph to create a power plant that converts methane leaking from the city’s landfill into energy.   Read More...

Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp. has offered to buy its British partner for 37 million pounds ($55.2 million) in cash and a piece of any future public offering.   Read More...

A St. Louis-based unit of Boeing won a contract worth about $69.7 million by the U.S. Air Force for the initial engineering, manufacturing and development of QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Targets, drone planes that will act as targets for newly developed weapons.   Read More...

Cisco Systems on March 9 unveiled super-fast Internet hardware that promises to boost U.S. competitiveness and bolster economic recovery by moving mountains of data at astounding speeds.   Read More...

Abbott Laboratories announced late Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Facet Biotech for a net price of $450 million in cash, in a move aimed at expanding its drug pipeline, including for treatments for multiple sclerosis.   Read More...

Boeing is working to broaden the offerings of its Unmanned Airborne Systems division through development of a surveillance aircraft — powered by a hydrogen-fueled Ford compact truck engine — that will be able to loiter at high altitudes for up to four days.   Read More...

Reversing a trend that has resulted in the loss of thousands of local jobs, a St. Louis-area apparel manufacturer has opted against out-sourcing and folded the bulk of information technology operations into its Town and Country headquarters.   Read More...

Manufacturing conglomerate 3M Co. said Monday it has agreed to acquire MTI PolyFab Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of noise and vibration reduction technology for airplanes.   Read More...

Two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies said Tuesday they are uniting their animal health businesses in a deal to become the top dog in the veterinary industry.   Read More...

Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when it's recycled that it can't be used again for the same purpose.   Read More...

American International Group will sell a second overseas life and health insurance unit for $15.5 billion to MetLife Inc. in an ongoing bid to repay billions in government aid.   Read More...

India's Essar Group Ltd. will acquire U.S. coal producer Trinity Coal for $600 million, giving the global steelmaker direct access to a key raw material that's seen a recovery in demand.   Read More...

In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.   Read More...

DuPont, a rival of Monsanto Co., plans to build a $55 million soybean seed production facility in Missouri’s bootheel.   Read More...

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 Energy Laboratory (NREL) and they mark the first comprehensive state-level assessment of the onshore wind resource potential since 1993.   Read More...

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

Steelmaker Nucor Corp. has entered into an agreement with Japan-based steel products manufacturer Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to form a new company called NuMit LLC, Nucor said March 2.   Read More...

According to electronic market research firm iSuppli, LEDs are facing a global supply shortage in 2010, and the year may end with a sharp under-supply of the in-demand devices unless production capacity ramps up.   Read More...

Specialty drug and medical device maker Baxter International Inc. said Monday it will spend up to $330 million to acquire ApaTech, a privately held British concern that makes bone and soft tissue replacement material using biochemistry.   Read More...