Twists, turns, less sugar mark Hylux’s road to success
By GREGORY ZELLER // A five-year-old startup with a taste for healthy living has hit it big – just what founder Lamar Letts wanted, though the path to success was…
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Law-less LIA looks within for presidential successor
By GREGORY ZELLER // An old friend has been named the Long Island Association’s new leader. Matthew Cohen, a former government relations executive director for the Long Island Power Authority…
New collaboration cuts to the heart of RNA splicing
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff and a Massachusetts-based neuroscience trailblazer are teaming up to advance ribonucleic acid splicing research – key to addressing several central…
Downtown breakdown details imbalance, path forward
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
For the toilet-anxious, coaches who really talk $#!+
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the westernmost reaches of Long Island, and a place very close to our hearts, comes Tushy – the Brooklyn-based bidet business that stands ready (or…
Island institutions compute new joint-admissions deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big joint-admissions wheel keeps on turning, with two more Long Island institutions joining forces to speed collegians toward higher degrees. This time, the wheel stops…
Acupath COVID assay earns national Benasource bump
By GREGORY ZELLER // The United States, at long last, has COVID-19 cornered – national vaccinations have soared, while the New York State Department of Health on Wednesday reported the…
Developer’s tax deal brings Amazon to Woodmere
By GREGORY ZELLER // With the help of another lucrative local-government economic-incentives package, Amazon has staked its latest big claim on Long Island. Riding the wave a $16 million tax-abatement…
Large buy-in has DepYmed eyeing huge clinical trials
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale pharmaceutical firm DepYmed is no stranger to capital investments – but a new infusion might be enough to push the rare-disease innovator over the commercialization…
In e-book, innovation stories waiting to be written
By GREGORY ZELLER // Communication Strategy Group is putting its e-book where its mouth is. The Huntington-based “brand storyteller” has powered up “Brandtelling for Business,” a free e-book detailing the…
Northwell targets safety, not rights, in smart gun fight
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Northwell Health in the lead, a battalion of nationwide healthcare networks is uniting against gun violence – and it’s hoping to leave politics outside. Instead,…
Adelphi innovations eye the workforce, and the world
By GREGORY ZELLER // Adelphi University has gone on a serious innovation spree, adding new continuing-education workshops, advanced-business certificates and an ambitious bachelor’s degree program with an international mien. The…
Europeans (and other earthlings) honor LI professors
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two Long Island professors have added noteworthy honors to their impressive résumés – one from Europe’s home of scientific excellence, the other from Earth’s base for…
Noting need for continued testing, Acupath steps on it
By GREGORY ZELLER // One year after perfecting the Pandemic Pivot, an innovative Plainview laboratory is doubling down on its unparalleled COVID-19 testing abilities – even as the vaccines flow….
Biden’s offshore wind plan shines bright on Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Biden Administration has announced an ambitious plan to dramatically increase the use of offshore wind power along the East Coast – and stakeholders of all…