Eric Schmid

3 days ago | stlmag.com | Eric Schmid

A new agtech company focused on enhancing gene editing for plants has launched in St. Louis, the Danforth Technology Company announced Tuesday morning. The company, Spearhead Bio, is the third startup in three years to spin out from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and aims to complement existing gene editing tools like CRISPR, which burst into the mainstream last decade.

4 days ago | stlmag.com | Eric Schmid

The St. Louis region’s continued struggles to retain and attract new residents are nothing new. It’s become an annual ritual of holding our collective breath to see just how bad the damage is when the U.S. Census Bureau releases its population estimates each spring. St. Louis city and county officials believe they may have a solution: Better zoning. Subscribe to the St. Louis Business newsletter to get the latest insights sent to your inbox every morning.

4 days ago | stlmag.com | Eric Schmid

Keen to halt population decline, leaders from the planning departments in both city and county hope modernizing zoning policies will help.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Eric Schmid

upend economic growth and recent cooling inflation , as well as the global supply chains that have developed under free trade. To Haitao Li, chair of the supply chain analytics department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Trump administration's rollout of tariffs in recent months appears to neglect the ways modern supply chains operate. "I don't think it's a good idea to have a generic list, any type of list, whether [it's] a list of countries, products or industries," he said.

3 weeks ago | kcur.org | Eric Schmid

Increased tariffs imposed by the U.S. have been a hallmark of the first months of the second Trump administration. The back-and-forth policy changes from Washington threaten to upend economic growth and recent cooling inflation, as well as the global supply chains that have developed under free trade.