You bet your ash: Welcome to Wednesday, true believers, and not just any Wednesday but Ash Wednesday, the annual Christian holy day of prayer and fasting and traditional start…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking a national first, Northwell Health on Monday delivered the first set of COVID-19 vaccination booster shots to organ-transplant patients. The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research,…
Rain out: Between near-miss Henri and super-soaker Ida, we’ve had quite enough rain, thank you – thankfully, the sun is shining today, dear readers, just in time for a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big brains at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research are compiling an enormous summer, replete with breakthrough studies and millions of dollars in new research…
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health is backing an early-stage Kings Park biotech’s quest for non-antibiotic-based COVID-19 treatments. CMTx Biotech has non-antimicrobials in its sights and a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Unt now, ve vill brainvash zese lab rats to hate zeir favorite foods! Hahahaha! What sounds like an iffy plot from a B-grade ’50s sci-fi flick…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Biomarkers similar to those found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients are appearing in the brains of first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Stony…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Millions of dollars in new federal grants are flowing to Stony Brook University’s Department of Computer Science, with cyber-defense and mobile data playing large. The research…
Here’s the pitch: It’s Friday, dear readers, and you’ve completed yet another sultry summertime workweek – with a special bonus to boot. For the first time this entire pandemic,…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A hefty federal grant will support a multi-disciplined team of Stony Brook University researchers with a unique take on the enigma that is depression. Combining experts…
The time warp, again: It’s happened once more, dear readers – that blink-and-you-missed-it jump to the left (or was it a step to the right?) and the whole first…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A stellar $20 million investment round has blasted a Long Island biotech into the stratosphere, and a new tax bracket. Farmingdale-based Codagenix Inc., a 2012 startup…
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research professor who’s dedicated his life to battling diabetes has earned a rare honor. Endocrinologist Jesse Roth, a fellow of the…
Almost there: You’ve made it this far, dear readers, and congratulations for that, as we wind down another busy workweek and look ahead to another well-earned autumnal weekend. Shoe…