News and views from the St. Louis life science community
Archives
- 2008.07.14: Farewell, goodbye
- 2008.02.05: Somark Completes Field Demo of Chipless RFID Tech
- 2008.01.30: Monsanto Shifts Focus from Corn to Soybeans
- 2008.01.28: MOBIO's Reaction to Governor's Race
- 2008.01.25: Wash U, Pfizer Ink $25M Collaboration Agreement
- 2008.01.22: SLU's Rick Majerus Gets Full Court Press over Stem Cell Research
- 2008.01.21: St Louis Tech Transfer Non-Profit Gains NSF Funding
- 2008.01.16: Creve Coeur Wet Lab Space Nears Approval
- 2008.01.14: Architectual Firm Tests Lab Openess
- 2007.12.21: Christmas Break
- 2007.12.21: Rebuilding the American Dream
- 2007.12.20: Orion Genomics Identifies Biomarker Panel for Breast Cancer
- 2007.12.19: HHMI to Fund Undergrad Phage Research at Wash U
- 2007.12.13: Bad NPR, Bad!
- 2007.12.13: Philanthropist Donates $20 million for Wash U Medical Research
- 2007.12.12: Monsanto Makes BusinessWeek
- 2007.12.12: Updated Biotactica Website
- 2007.12.10: MOHELA Ends Life Science Loan Repayment
- 2007.12.10: Blunt Seeks Money for UMKC Nursing Center
- 2007.12.07: Blogging Infiltrates the NCBI
- 2007.12.06: TransMed Article in GEN
- 2007.12.05: i-CARES Call for Proposals
- 2007.12.03: Time to Sell Out ESC Research
- 2007.11.29: Singulex Teams with Wyeth for Biomarker Detection
- 2007.11.21: MO Life Science Research Board Doles out Funding
- 2007.11.20: New Stem Cell Technique Passes Proof-of-Concept Test
- 2007.11.20: A Slow Rate of Spin
- 2007.11.19: MO Business Leaders Push for More Startup Funding
- 2007.11.13: New WashU Research Center to Rise at Euclid and Children's Place
- 2007.11.13: Akermin Raises $1.5M in VC Funding
- 2007.11.12: Catching Up
- 2007.10.29: Craig Venter Visits St. Louis on Friday
- 2007.10.22: Doisy Research Center
- 2007.10.17: Science Magazine Names Monsanto to List of Top 10 Biotech Employers
- 2007.10.16: Danforth Center Researcher Knighted by French
- 2007.10.12: Fuzzy Stem Cells
- 2007.10.11: Caveman Watch: UM President, Board of Curators, Speak Out Against Stem Cell Opponents
- 2007.10.11: iBridge Network
- 2007.10.08: SLU School of Public Health to Merge with Wash U?
- 2007.10.05: Monsanto Teams with Instrument Maker to Develop Tools for Bioethanol Production
- 2007.10.04: Wash U Researchers Uncover Link Between Cholesterol, Alzheimer's Disease
- 2007.10.04: Infectious Greed on WIRED Science
- 2007.10.03: Skandalaris Center - UCSD Review of Local Biotech
- 2007.09.24: Wash U Wins $50 Million Grant for Translational Medicine
- 2007.09.22: Casual Friday: Pecha Kucha
- 2007.09.20: Kereos on Track to Begin Clinical Testing Next Year
- 2007.09.19: Misouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures Receives Advocacy Award
- 2007.09.19: Beachy Named to Enterprise Rent-a-Car Board
- 2007.09.18: UMSL Nanotech Center Progresses
- 2007.09.17: Divergence Wins $100k SBIR Grant
- 2007.09.17: Novus Launches Horse Nutrition Spinoff
- 2007.09.13: CET Report Describes Small Business Sucesses
- 2007.09.13: MOBOT Hosts Discussion on Encyclopedia of Life
- 2007.09.12: Praise for SLU Entrepreneurship Program
- 2007.09.12: Chlorogen Shuts its Doors
- 2007.09.11: Armstrong Teasdale Expands Intellectual Property Practice
- 2007.09.11: Monsanto Acquires Brazillian Corn Seed Company
- 2007.09.10: Monsanto Completes $21 Million Data Center
- 2007.09.10: Zombie Pfizer Computers Attack!
- 2007.09.07: MO Legislators Gather for BIO Benchmarking 2007 Kickoff
- 2007.09.07: New MO Life Sciences Website
- 2007.08.31: Danforth Center Breaks Ground on $5.25 Million Greenhouse Expansion
- 2007.08.27: Post-Dispatch: Anti-Stem Cell Measure "Overheated", "Misleading"
- 2007.08.27: Novus International Breaks Ground on New $20 Million Headquarters
- 2007.08.27: Monsanto Moves Towards Drought-Tolerant Crops
- 2007.08.22: Caveman Watch: New Group Proposes Anti-Stem Cell Research Measure
- 2007.08.22: Wash U Med Joins Major Cancer Research Partnership
- 2007.08.22: Pfizer Breaks Ground on $50 Million Biologics Plant
- 2007.08.16: Wash U Med Receives $5.7 Million Grant for Kidney Disease Research
- 2007.08.13: Four “Centers of Excellence” Designated by Life Science Research Board
- 2007.08.04: Off for Vacation!
- 2007.08.04: Center for Emerging Technologies Announces Expansion Plan
- 2007.07.31: Anheuser-Busch Looks to Crops as Energy Source
- 2007.07.31: New Monsanto Soybean Technology Gains Regulatory Approval
- 2007.07.27: Wash U Researchers Discover Gene Linked to Itching
- 2007.07.25: AP Reports on Missouri Stem Cell Politics
- 2007.07.23: July 2007 Plant and Life Sciences Network Meeting
- 2007.07.18: Why Kelly Gillespie is My Hero (and Should Be Your's Too)
- 2007.07.18: Minor Changes
- 2007.07.17: Catching up: New Wet Lab, Hospital Awards and More
- 2007.07.11: Missouri Misses Cut for National Bio-Agro-Defense Facility
- 2007.07.05: Sigma-Aldrich Promotes Smoller to President of Research Biotechnology
- 2007.07.03: Catching Up
- 2007.07.02: Decision on DHS Agro-Defense Facility Delayed
- 2007.06.27: More DOE Debriefing
- 2007.06.26: Biofuels Research Centers go to sites in Tennessee, Wisconsin, California
- 2007.06.26: St. Louis Has Best Water in Nation!
- 2007.06.25: June Plant and Life Sciences Network Meeting
- 2007.06.25: SynthBio IP Concern
- 2007.06.25: Big Week
- 2007.06.23: St. Louis Science Center
- 2007.06.22: Sigma-Aldrich Licenses Epigenetic Research Technology
- 2007.06.21: Appeals Court Confirms Wash U Ownershp of Tissue Bank
- 2007.06.20: Monsanto Enters into Research Collaboration with Athenix Corp.
- 2007.06.20: Monsanto, Bayer agree to IP swap
- 2007.06.18: Nanotechnologist Joins Wash U BME Dept.
- 2007.06.18: Komen Race for the Cure Raises $2.5 Million
- 2007.06.13: MIT Venture Program Arrives in St. Louis
- 2007.06.11: Singulex raises $19.1 million in Series D Financing
- 2007.06.07: Casual Friday: Synthetic Biology Keynote at DAC
- 2007.06.06: Nick Akers, CTO of Akermin, Named "Young Entrepreneur of the Year "
- 2007.06.05: Wash U to Spend $55 Million on Renewable Energy Center
- 2007.05.31: Monsanto Chief Predicts Increased Demand for Engineered Crops
- 2007.05.30: Two Wash U Programs Prepare Researchers for Clinical Studies
- 2007.05.29: Casual Tuesday: Newsweek Catches a Synthetic Fever
- 2007.05.24: St. Louis RCGA Named a "Top-10" Economic Development Groups
- 2007.05.22: Monsanto Announces Gene Stacking Partnership with Chromatin, Inc.
- 2007.05.21: Danforth Center Recieves $3 Million+ Grant from Buffett Foundation
- 2007.05.18: Casual Friday: This-to-That
- 2007.05.15: Three Wash U Scientists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 2007.05.15: New Wet-Lab Developement May Get State Incentives
- 2007.05.14: Pfizer to add $100 Million to Planned Expansion in Chesterfield
- 2007.05.14: Wash U Engineering Team Developing Nanostructured Energy Converters
- 2007.05.11: Casual Friday: Bike to Work!
- 2007.05.09: Stereotaxis Reports Record 1Q Revenue
- 2007.05.08: SLU to Lead National Smallpox Study
- 2007.05.07: MO Political Roundup
- 2007.04.26: Off to Experimental Biology 2007!
- 2007.04.25: SLU Named Best Place to Work in St. Louis
- 2007.04.25: Ulrich Medical to Base U.S. Subsidiary in Chesterfield
- 2007.04.20: Casual Friday: Boost your Gmail
- 2007.04.18: Casual (Tuesday)
- 2007.04.16: St Louis Shows Encouraging R&D Job Growth
- 2007.04.13: Support the Life Sciences Research Trust Fund!
- 2007.04.12: MO Legislature Challenges Life Science Funding (Again)
- 2007.04.11: Komen Foundation Awards Grants for Local Cancer Support, Research Programs
- 2007.04.11: Tripos Sells Brentwood HQ
- 2007.04.10: U.S. Senate to Debate Stem Cell Compromise Today
- 2007.04.09: Wash U BME Researcher Wins Prize
- 2007.04.06: Casual Friday: Venture Hacks
- 2007.04.04: Wash U Researchers Use Nanoparticles to Track Living Cells
- 2007.04.04: KV Buys Estrogen-Replacement Drug for $150 Million
- 2007.04.03: UMSL to Rename, Expand Scope of Nanotech Center
- 2007.04.03: Stereotaxis Catheter Receives FDA Approval
- 2007.04.02: SLU Researcher Harnesses Power of Sugar
- 2007.04.02: Akermin Raises $3.5 Million for Enzymatic Fuel Cell
- 2007.03.25: Monsanto, BASF Announce $1.5 Billion Partnership
- 2007.03.25: Where's Brian?
- 2007.03.15: Danforth Center Conversations Series Online
- 2007.03.15: InvestMidwest Presenters Announced
- 2007.03.14: The Scientist Ranks Best Institutions for PostDocs
- 2007.03.13: MO Senate Democrats Fight Weakened Funding Bill
- 2007.03.13: Caveman Watch: $113 Million in State Life Science Funding Officially Scrapped
- 2007.03.09: Casual Friday: Votes from White Coats
- 2007.03.08: Dr. Danforth Goes to Washington
- 2007.03.08: Sigma-Aldrich Releases First Two siRNA Druggable Genome Libraries
- 2007.03.07: Monsanto, Solae to Co-Develop Omega-3 Products
- 2007.03.07: UMSL Receives $150k Gift from Sigma-Aldrich
- 2007.03.06: Wash U Researchers Explore Gene Linked to Intelligence
- 2007.03.05: Startup Investing from Gilman Louie
- 2007.03.02: Casual Friday: This Does What, Exactly?
- 2007.03.01: Abegonea to Recieve $76 Million for Cellulosic Ethanol Facility
- 2007.03.01: MO to Promote Key Biotech Sectors
- 2007.02.28: Tripos UK Liquidation Hits Snag
- 2007.02.27: Big Easy Biotech Boosters See St. Louis as Model
- 2007.02.27: Wash U Researcher Wins $250,000 for Alzheimer's Research
- 2007.02.26: Danforth Center Recieves $25 Million Gift for Renewable Fuels Research
- 2007.02.23: Casual Friday: Entrepreneurship Week USA
- 2007.02.22: Surgeons Develop Better Technique for Common Heart Surgery
- 2007.02.21: Missouri Launches Small Business Web Portal
- 2007.02.21: Monsanto Offers Free Soybean Breeding Tech to Researchers
- 2007.02.20: Baltimore Developer Interested in Creve Coeur Research Center
- 2007.02.20: Tripos Announces New Molecular Aligment Software
- 2007.02.20: Wash U Scientists Use HIV Protein to Fight Cancer
- 2007.02.19: SLU Introduces New Laser Treatment for Circulation Problems
- 2007.02.19: Wash U Gearing Up for Commercialization Push
- 2007.02.19: Editor's Note: New Posting Format
- 2007.02.16: Casual Friday: Lab Wear
- 2007.02.15: SLU Study Finds Nasal Spray Better Flu Vaccine for Kids
- 2007.02.14: Stem Cell Opposition Bill Delayed in Committee
- 2007.02.13: MO Senate Committee Cuts $113 Million in Biotech Funding Over Stem Cell Fears
- 2007.02.09: Casual Friday: Science on the Tube
- 2007.02.08: Missouri Attorney General Requests Anti-Cloning Money
- 2007.02.07: Stereotaxis Reaches Clinical, Sales Milestones
- 2007.02.06: Castanho, Marrah Named Co-Directors of Wash U Tech Transfer Office
- 2007.02.05: Medical Device, DNA Testing Teams Among Olin Cup Winners
- 2007.02.02: Casual Friday: First Edition
- 2007.02.01: Wash U Recieves $14.9 Million to Study Lung Disease
- 2007.01.31: Monsanto Answers Critics of Bovine Growth Hormone
- 2007.01.30: Scientists at Wash U, NimbleGen Publish Data on Gene Duplication Assay
- 2007.01.29: Somark Innovations Reports Successful Live Animal Tests
- 2007.01.26: Events for the Week of January 29th
- 2007.01.25: 'The Scientist' Asks: Is Tech Transfer Broken?
- 2007.01.24: Orion Genomics Successfully Validates Panel of Breast Cancer Biomarkers
- 2007.01.24: New CET Website
- 2007.01.23: Wash U Recieves Seed Capital for New Brain Imaging Spinoff
- 2007.01.23: Venture Capital Financing Rising Across Country, Saint Louis
- 2007.01.22: Pfizer to cut 10% of international work force, restructure R&D
- 2007.01.22: Wash U one of "Most Productive" in Country
- 2007.01.19: Link of the Week: Flash Element TD
- 2007.01.19: Events for the Week of January 22
- 2007.01.18: Sigma-Aldrich Licenses RNAi Technology to Pfizer
- 2007.01.17: Divergence, Monsanto Extend Collaboration
- 2007.01.16: SLU Creating New Division for Translational Biology
- 2007.01.15: Kansas Governor Raises Stakes in Bid for Biodefense Facility
- 2007.01.13: Work of Danforth Scientist Could Improve Ethanol Production
- 2007.01.12: Link of the Week: Steven Colbert on Tech
- 2007.01.10: SLU Sponsoring Regional Student Idea Competition
- 2007.01.09: Amniotic Stem Cells Offer Hope for Therapies
- 2007.01.05: Link of the Week: WIRED Science
- 2007.01.03: Can St. Louis Offer Africa a Green Hand Up?
- 2007.01.02: Singulex completes successful $11 M investment round
- 2006.12.22: 100th Post!
- 2006.12.21: Two Missouri Lawmakers Announce Anti-Cloning Efforts
- 2006.12.20: Singulex Publishes Data on Bioassay Performance
- 2006.12.19: Express Scripts Makes Hostile Takeover Bid for Rival
- 2006.12.18: Monsanto, Other Biotechs Among St. Louis RCGA "Top 50" Award Winners
- 2006.12.15: Cool Link of the Week: Google Patent
- 2006.12.14: It's "Patently" Obvious
- 2006.12.13: New Biotech-Focused Law Firm
- 2006.12.12: Pfizer Troubles, pt. 2
- 2006.12.11: Conan Earns His Geek Cred
- 2006.12.11: Pfizer Cancels Torcetrapib Phase-III Trials
- 2006.12.08: StL Biotech Among IdeaBounce Winners!
- 2006.12.04: IdeaBounce
- 2006.12.03: Bioenergy Lecture at Wash U
- 2006.11.30: Wash U Genome Sequencing Center Recieves $156 M Grant
- 2006.11.28: Gregor Mendel Exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum
- 2006.11.27: Offshoring Shuffles Biotech Landscape
- 2006.11.26: Iran: Stem Cell Powerhouse?
- 2006.11.25: Bioenergy and Science on Tap
- 2006.11.23: Wash U researchers named to Scientific American's Top-50 list
- 2006.11.18: Barnes selected as trial hospital for artificial heart
- 2006.11.17: First Steps from Bioentrepreneur
- 2006.11.16: Jorge Chen of PhD Comics at Wash U
- 2006.11.15: Olin Cup Finalists Announced
- 2006.11.09: Amendment 2 Passes
- 2006.11.05: Two SLU researchers killed by drunk driver
- 2006.11.05: US biotech firms unimpressed with traditional grad school curriculums
- 2006.11.05: Danforth Center ranked as one of the "Best Places to Work in Academia"
- 2006.11.05: KFC announces switch to low-linoleic soybean oil
- 2006.11.05: Kansas City recieves Missouri tax credits for biotechnology center
- 2006.11.01: National expert in cancer prevention joins Siteman Center
- 2006.10.20: Audio debate on Amendment 2
- 2006.10.15: More garage-band biotech
- 2006.10.10: DOE funds microbial-energy sequencing project
- 2006.08.19: Bayer Cropscience finds traces of unapproved GM material in rice samples
- 2006.08.19: Renewable Agriculture Energy Inc. set to base biofuel operations center in St. Louis
- 2006.08.18: WU fly research spawns biotech startup
- 2006.08.18: Blunt bars tax breaks to corporate biofuel plants
- 2006.08.17: Danforth Center scientist recieves Presidential award
- 2006.08.17: MRI scans in premature infants can predict future developmental delays
- 2006.08.17: Trial of new asthma treatment calls for volunteers
- 2006.08.16: Battery troubles
- 2006.08.16: Monsanto to acquire seed producer Delta & Pine ...again
- 2006.08.16: WashU BME student wins Pfizer award
- 2006.08.15: Stem cell rally
- 2006.08.15: MO Coalition for Lifesaving Cures documentary
- 2006.08.15: Smaller life science firms outsourcing
- 2006.08.15: SLU researchers expand anthrax vaccine testing
- 2006.08.14: Scientists see shift in stem cell research goals
- 2006.08.14: Corn Crunch
- 2006.08.11: Events for the week of August 14th, 2006
- 2006.08.11: Tripos launches new drug discovery software
- 2006.08.11: GM attitudes depend on food type
- 2006.08.11: Solae breaks ground on $40M CORTEX 2 headquarters
- 2006.08.11: St. Louis to Host Joint USDA-DOE National Renewable Energy Conference
- 2006.08.11: BIO conference returns to Chicago in 2010
- 2006.08.10: New Links
- 2006.08.10: Monsanto, Sandia National Labs team up on bioenergy initiative
- 2006.08.10: In Memoriam, Harley Bruce English
- 2006.08.09: MO Biotech Conference
- 2006.08.08: U.S. Senate reauthorizes SBIR grants to venture-backed biotechs
- 2006.08.08: Stem cell initiative gains approval for ballot vote
- 2006.08.04: 2006 National Soybean Rust Symposium to be held in St. Louis
- 2006.08.04: ISW graduates from Biogenerator support
- 2006.08.04: Dept. of Energy selects Danfoth center for Cassava sequencing effort
- 2006.08.04: Monsanto executive Charles W. Burson to retire
- 2006.08.04: Inda eases GM soybean import regulations
- 2006.07.27: Keep it classy, San Diego
- 2006.07.27: Colbert on Stem Cells
- 2006.07.26: CORTEX Website
- 2006.07.23: Do the eyes have it?
- 2006.07.23: Hand me the chart!
- 2006.07.23: Triathlon Seed Investment
- 2006.07.23: Dupont biofuels initiative
- 2006.07.23: VC funding up
- 2006.07.22: Events for the week of July 23, 2006
- 2006.07.19: Events: RCGS Plant and Life Science Network
- 2006.07.19: St. Louis biotech development makes news
- 2006.07.19: Virgin named head of pathology and immunology
- 2006.07.19: Chistophe Mérieux dies at age 39
- 2006.07.19: Veto
- 2006.07.18: Final Vote: 63-37
- 2006.07.17: Stem Cells! Everywhere!
- 2006.07.17: Senate Stem Cell Debate
- 2006.07.13: BME-ball
- 2006.07.13: Events: Idea Bounce
- 2006.07.13: Doctors = Voldemort
- 2006.07.13: SLU Grants
- 2006.07.13: In with the new
- 2006.07.10: Stem Cell Documentary
- 2006.07.10: Spooning
- 2006.07.06: Congrats to Armstrong Teasdale
- 2006.07.06: Chinese Rice
- 2006.06.30: How do you lose a trait?
- 2006.06.30: Woo! Woo!
- 2006.06.28: Big week in Creve Coeur
- 2006.06.26: Where's the beef?
- 2006.06.26: PhD Comics
- 2006.06.26: Pfizer buyout
- 2006.06.21: Basement Biotech