The Missouri Development Finance Board approved $6.2 million in tax-exempt bonds Tuesday for an $8.25 million expansion at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur. The expansion is expected ... Read More
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center said today it won a $5.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop the oilseed plant camelina as a sustainable source of biofuel and an alternative to oil. Investigators at the Danforth Center’s Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels will work to develop an enhanced variety of camelina that produces more oil per acre. ... Read More
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has joined forces with the nation’s three other largest nonprofit plant science research institutions to form the Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes. The other ... Read More
St. Louis has been awarded a $1 million two-year federal grant— one of six grants handed out nationwide — for life science start-ups. The grant winner is a regional collaboration, brought ... Read More
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. Benson Hill Biosystems, led by CEO ... Read More
Gov. Jay Nixon today joined leadership of Pharma Medica Research Inc. as well as local government and economic development officials in cutting the ribbon on the company’s new research facility in ... Read More
One of the largest mergers ever is happening right now in the world of agtech as Bayer and Missouri’s St. Louis-based Monsanto have agreed to a $66 billion definitive merger agreement. ... Read More
One of the region’s biggest biotech research institutes is beefing up its roster again. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will announce today that it is hiring four new principal investigators, ... Read More
Dozens of strains of algae are growing at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in a new algae farm that’s powered by 30 kilowatts of electricity. Twelve custom growth chambers, which ... Read More
Phycal LLC, which has an algae biotechnology laboratory at the BioResearch and Development Growth Park (BRDG) at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has won a $24.2 million federal research grant. ... Read More