Albany rings bell for Restore NY, round five
Hempstead will host an informational meeting for Long Island municipalities craving a slice of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest competitive-funding pie. With $80 million up for grabs in Round 5 of…
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Nothing to fear, unless you’re a radiological terrorist
By GREGORY ZELLER // Pay no attention to that imposing fleet of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard and New York State Naval Militia vessels massing off the East End. Governor…
Old friends, new funds have ThermoLift thinking ahead
By GREGORY ZELLER // A shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization and innovation ecosystems is renewing ties with an old friend – and leveraging some fresh international funding –…
Three BNL researchers score ‘early career’ DOE grants
Three Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists will receive “significant research funding” through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program. The eight-year-old competitive-application program, a function of the DOE’s Office…
ALZ: Genetic variants can run, but they can’t hide
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is targeting genetic risk factors behind Alzheimer’s disease, the first of many steps toward new potential treatments. Feinstein Institute assistant professor Yun Freudenberg-Hua has…
Thinking big, about the subconscious of coding
By GREGORY ZELLER // In an age ruled by digital interfaces and computerized systems, Noreen Kazi and Nisha Bhalla may have cracked the code. Neither is, by education or inherent…
Study: Babylon IDA tax cuts spurred $600M in activity
Take a bow, Babylon Industrial Development Agency: You leveraged just $6 million in tax incentives into nearly 100 times that in economic activity, and created some 10,000 new jobs, in…
LI vineyards sparkle in NY wine awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island can claim bragging rights to New York State’s 2017 Winery of the Year. At least, half of them. Southold’s Sparkling Pointe Vineyards has earned…
So, Brian Fried had this idea…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Perhaps Brian Fried should launch the re-inventors club. Boasting many notches on his toolbelt – several inventions, a few commercial scores and a pair of how-to…
NYIT: ‘Lethal interactions’ could stop tough cancers
New York Institute of Technology researchers may have found a way to stop cancerous tumors from spreading through the central nervous system. And for some patients suffering from the worst…
New orbit: Investment group snaps up Globecomm
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s most productive high-tech manufacturers is under new management. Hauppauge’s Globecomm Systems announced Wednesday that an investor group led by New York City-based…
Heads scratched as Chem-Master gets the boot
By GREGORY ZELLER // A biotech manufacturer with a 23-year history of servicing Stony Brook University researchers and startups is being evicted from the university’s Chemistry Building – and nobody…
St. Francis tops in hospitals, US News says
Roslyn’s St. Francis Hospital is the fifth-best hospital in New York State, according to the latest ranking by U.S. News & World Report, followed by NYU Winthrop Hospital at No….
For Applied DNA, real growth in fertilizer
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences, the Stony Brook biotech, has spent 2017 aggressively introducing its DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technologies to new industries and markets –…
MSC Industrial eyes Midwest in metalworking merger
A Melville-based industrial equipment distributor has snapped up an Iowa-based industrial supplier. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, but multiple published reports have MSC Industrial Supply Co. acquiring…