Brew Bus Rolls Through Insurance Roadblock
By GREGORY ZELLER // Running the LI Brew Bus has been an education – and that, according to founder Brad Darrohn, is kind of an important point. Among the primary lessons…
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Novel Parkinson’s Procedure Pumps Up NSUH
By GREGORY ZELLER // They’re dancing in the aisles, literally, at North Shore University Hospital, thanks to a revolutionary treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Surgeons at the Manhasset hospital, part of…
Applied DNA Taking it to Swedish car thieves
By GREGORY ZELLER // Let this be a warning to Swedish car thieves: Applied DNA Sciences is on the case. Through Safesolutions AB (bring your Swedish or try the Google…
Feinstein’s Tracey to head bioelectronics summit
Feinstein Institute chief and global bioelectronics pioneer Kevin Tracey will headline a September New York Academy of Science conference on bioelectronic medicine. Tracey, Feinstein’s president and CEO and the brains…
Entrepreneurial success, now snack-sized
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s a good chance your Memorial Day snacks, and other sweet and salty selections in your summer picnic basket, come courtesy of Jake Schmigelski. Forget trying…
Cuomo kicks off $36M Jones Beach Renovation
With summer unofficially starting this weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has unwrapped a big present for Long Island beachcombers. The governor on Thursday cut the ribbon on $36 million in restoration…
LI Innovators Among EY’s Top Entrepreneurs
By GREGORY ZELLER // Four Long Island innovators have made EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year short list. EY, the moniker for London-based multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young Global…
M3 Technology and the chain of command
By GREGORY ZELLER // Every business owner understands the supply-and-demand principle. The successful ones understand supply is a demand of its own. It’s a common concern for major manufacturers, according…
Task Force: Education Key to LI workforce
By GREGORY ZELLER // The State Senate Task Force on Workforce Development is going to school. Educational initiatives including new Pathways in Technology schools and expanded access to tech-focused BOCES…
Support grows for Cuomo’s third-track plan
The ranks of the Right Track For Long Island Coalition are swelling. The coalition – a partnership of major organizations, institutions, businesses and individuals united to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s…
Real estate by the techies, for the techies
By GREGORY ZELLER // Tech companies are their own corporate species, including their unique habitats. That’s the professional assessment of Ross Selinger, a commercial real estate veteran who’s spent 26…
LI jobless rate dips below 4% in April
Long Island’s unemployment rate dropped below 4 percent in April for the first time in nine years, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. Nassau’s rate dipped 0.5 points to 3.7 percent,…
Taking down the hospital’s biggest killer
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Northwell Health clinical study is targeting a notorious killer that preys on weakened hospital patients. By testing white blood cells and monitoring “expression biomarkers,” SeptiCyte…
American Culture, now bottling its own future
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Close Call file comes the story of American Culture, a Huntington Station hair-care manufacturer that nearly gave Long Island the brush-off. Cofounder Louis Guarneri…
SynchroPET gets an A in U of Buffalo testing
Stony Brook-based SynchroPET has taken another step toward unprecedented, simultaneous PET/MRI imaging. By placing a PET camera into the bore of an existing MRI machine – that’s the chamber where…