On Friday, we told you about the opening of the one Nky Center in Covington.

The new building is home to many Northern Kentucky organizations like Life Cycles, KY.

Our Emily Sisk sat down with the executive director to learn what the new life science space is all about, and how it could benefit Kentuckians.

Imagine what we could do if we were actually coordinated in the Commonwealth.

Doctor Kristen Goodale is trying to turn that imagination into reality through life psyche.

It's a nonprofit life sciences incubator that welcomes companies to conduct research here in the Commonwealth.

People come to life psyche to solve problems or to test problems.

It could mean anything from, hey, I want to create a cure for cancer.

I want to make someone else's life easier by developing a device for them.

Or simply, I want to be healthier.

And I want to go into the supplement industry to solve that problem.

Goodale said this research, which focuses on human health, takes time.

Researchers are constantly testing solutions to learn what does and doesn't work.

The executive director said life psyche provides the resources most entrepreneurs can't afford.

We provide equipment for you and other items that are really, really expensive, so you don't have to buy that as an early stage business.

State Senator Chris McDaniel has been a strong supporter of life cycle.

In 2022, the state provided $15 million to help Covington secure the new lab.

There will be a tremendous amount of research that occurs right here in Northern Kentucky, cutting edge, entry level research that will that will be happening here.

It's not happening in San Francisco, not in Boston, not in Raleigh, but right here in downtown Covington.

So what does the lab in Covington have in common with similar facilities in New York?

Everything you see in our facility is equal to what they have.

And these bigger markets go.

They'll say, well, Kentucky is now competing with large markets in New York and Boston.

They're not forgetting that the research is meant to benefit the entire state.

If we want to do something like this in Hazzard, Kentucky, we need to first build the foundation, and that's what we're doing right now.

Senator McDaniel agreed, saying wife psyche is a win for all of Kentucky, not just Covington cures that are found, the products that are invented, the developments that occur.

It will overall improve the the the length and the quality of life for Kentuckians.

To some, expanding the life sciences industry seemed far fetched for a mostly rural state like Kentucky.

But to go deal there was no better place than the Bluegrass State.

There's no reason we're not allowed to do it here.

That's what I like to say.

No one's stopping us from operating at a high level of excellence, and no one should for Kentucky Edition.

I'm Emily Sisk.

Thank you much, Emily.

Lifecycle is now working to fill the lab with research companies from Kentucky and all across the country.