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St. Louis Magazine spotlighted Spearhead Bio as one of the standout startups that has emerged from St. Louis’s growing bioscience ecosystem. The article, “How St. Louis Built a More Collaborative Bioscience Ecosystem,” highlights how the region’s research institutions — including the Danforth Plant Science Center — and supporting infrastructure have produced companies spanning agricultural innovation,…

A St. Louis startup is turning plants’ own “jumping genes” into precision tools that could transform how quickly new crop varieties reach farmers facing climate pressures and disease threats.

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…

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…