SyNC is taking your little piggies to market
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sharone Piontkowksi loves feet. Jonathan Glibert predicts “a forever stream of income.” Paul Schwartz is on board, literally. And don’t get Shlomo Piontkowski started. That’s the…
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Babylon, Hempstead land clean water funds
A $1.8 million award for the Town of Babylon and a $450,000 stipend for the Town of North Hempstead were among the $75 million in state grants for water-infrastructure improvements…
Another, yawn, record quarter for Applied DNA
Another quarter, another revenue record for Applied DNA Sciences. Chief Executive Officer James Hayward’s Stony Brook biotech firm, which provides unique DNA-based anti-theft and product-authentication solutions, announced FY2015 fourth-quarter earnings…
North Shore partners with Miami health firm
A research agreement between the North Shore-LIJ Health System and a Florida-based healthcare company could help doctors better predict susceptibility to cancer, cardiac conditions and neurological disorders before a person…
A fix for malfunctioning mitochondria
By GREGORY ZELLER // A tri-state connection may soon unravel the mystery of mitochondrial disease – a potential breakthrough for patients with type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and a host…
Design Edge up for top toy honors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Friends up high in the Walt Disney Co. and a digital upgrade have revived a popular children’s product from a decade ago – and earned the…
BNL lands 2 ‘Oscars of Innovation’
Brookhaven National Laboratory has been honored once more by R&D Magazine, which counted two BNL-developed technologies among its top 100 tech innovations of the year. Known as the “Oscars of…
LIBN parent selling to community paper group
GateHouse Media, a shopper and community news publisher with hundreds of titles in small markets across the United States, has agreed to acquire Dolan LLC, the parent company of Long…
Wading once more into the crowd that loves them
By GREGORY ZELLER // Consider it a home-brewed version of Kickstarter. Riverhead’s Moustache Brewing Co., which launched following a successful 2012 campaign on the group-funding site, is once again appealing…
ThermoLift added to WF Innovation Incubator
Stony Brook clean-energy startup ThermoLift has been added to Wells Fargo’s Innovation Incubator, a five-year, $10 million program designed to help accelerate next-gen environmental technologies. ThermoLift will receive up to $250,000 in…
Charmtech sets its sights on the mainstream
By GREGORY ZELLER // Interactive software designed to make digital content accessible to the vision- and learning-impaired may soon change the way everyone surfs the web. It’s the natural evolution…
LI wins $98.3M in state eco-dev contest
Long Island was awarded $98.3 million in state aid for construction and other projects that boost job creation in the state’s annual economic development competition, making it one of the…
Life is sweet for Backyard Brine. And sour. And spicy and …
By GREGORY ZELLER // Randy Kopke knows there’s an artisan in all of us. For the self-employed contractor – tile and masonry, mostly – it turned out to be pickling,…
Mary Putre hopes to shovel all the way to the bank
By GREGORY ZELLER // “Snow hurts,” says Mary Putre. And it’s not just because she has two surgically repaired shoulders. Every Long Island home and business owner knows clearing snow…
Symbiotic Health, Goddard Labs eye Brooklyn move
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two of Long Island’s most-promising biotech startups are packing up their R&D and heading for greener pastures. At least for now. Symbiotic Health and Goddard Labs…