Applied DNA goes ‘Beyond’ in cotton quest
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is going to Bed Bath & Beyond, but not because it needs new towels. Instead, the Stony Brook-based provider of DNA-focused supply chain,…
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Northwell looks north with Syracuse affiliation
Northwell Health has picked up another one. The Board of Directors at Crouse Hospital, the backbone of a two-hospital, 3,300-employee health system based in Syracuse, has approved a clinical affiliation…
Israel to lead Meltzer Lippe government group
By GREGORY ZELLER // Lobbying? No … but expect some insider-infused navigation of government’s corridors of power. That’s the word out of Mineola law firm Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone…
OYOclass act: Kids get with the programming
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Never Too Young To Start file comes OYOclass.com, an innovative computer-programming platform that embraces project-based learning principles to help even the youngest students leapfrog…
URGENT to women: Come on in, the water’s fine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island commercial, educational and nonprofit forces have united to encourage women to dive into relatively unexplored waters. New York American Water, the Merrick-based subsidiary of…
Pediatric kidney transplant a first for Cohen Children’s
The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center has completed its first-ever pediatric kidney transplant operation. Matthew Francis, a 14-year-old from Rockaway Beach, was diagnosed in 2012 with focal segmental…
Watchdog: 100 days in, an environmental ‘disaster’
By HEATHER LEIBOWITZ, ESQ. // In his first 100 days, President Trump has taken dozens of actions that threaten clean air, clean water and treasured places. There is no question,…
Preliminary approval for high-tech, housing tax deals
Dozens of high-paying tech jobs and affordable rental housing for those who aren’t paid quite that much are in the mix with two transactions preliminarily approved Thursday by the Suffolk County Industrial Development…
Debrief: Lenny Poveromo, living in a material world
The Composite Prototyping Center – a nonprofit manufacturing mecca specializing in carbon fibers, ceramics and other non-traditional building blocks – opened in Plainview in 2014 under the steadiest of hands….
Cuomo inks $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure act
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany dove into water pollution once again Wednesday, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo visiting Farmingdale State College to lay out a $2.5 billion plan to remediate and…
Feinstein, TheraSource target sepsis, with NIH’s help
By GREGORY ZELLER // With a little help from the besieged National Institutes of Health, a pillar of Long Island-based scientific research and one of its shining biotech spinoffs are…
With $800 million at stake, let the games begin
It’s on: Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday officially opened the seventh round of the annual Regional Economic Development Council competition, a statewide funding contest in which each of the state’s…
Promises made, promises kept in Brentwood
By GREGORY ZELLER // With new equipment and a pending real-estate deal, a Brentwood business is making good on its commitments to Empire State Development, Albany’s main economic-development engine. Nearly…
NYIT series looks to arm tomorrow’s cyber-defenders
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sizeable grant from Northrop Grumman and a pressing need – the “coming cyberwars,” is how Nada Anid somewhat glumly termed it – have spurred the…
Nomorobo: A million users later, just getting started
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a major milestone for robocall terminator Nomorobo, which sometime this week will be downloaded by its one-millionth user. Developer Aaron Foss’ call blocker – scourge…