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Spearhead Bio Awarded NSF Tech Transfer Grant to Accelerate Development of Improved Corn Varieties

By emilywofford | July 14, 2025 |

Startup leads next generation precision crop improvement using plant’s natural genome evolution   LOUIS, MO, July 14, 2025 – Spearhead Bio, a biotechnology startup revolutionizing crop genome engineering through the use of plants’ own natural DNA, has been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The…

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(AgFunder News) Danforth Technology Center launches gene-editing startup Spearhead Bio to solve ‘a major obstacle with CRISPR’

By emilywofford | May 21, 2025 |

The Danforth Technology Company (DTC) unveiled its latest startup this week with the launch of Spearhead Bio, which has developed a tool to complement existing gene editing techniques such as CRISPR. The technology “has a clear value to improving the efficiency and speed” of gene editing, according to DTC, a subsidiary of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in…

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Danforth Technology Company Launches New Startup Metablify

By emilywofford | October 28, 2024 |

ST. LOUIS, MO, October, 28, 2024 – The Danforth Technology Company (DTC) today announced the launch of Metablify, a startup that has developed a breakthrough technology platform that enables the detection and quantification of previously undetectable metabolites and chemicals in large numbers of biological samples processed using LC/MS data processing algorithms. “Metablify’s platform has a…

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