Cuomo taps Rosado for state secretary
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated former El Diario publisher Rossana Rosado to replace the retiring Cesar Perales as Secretary of State. Rosado has been in and out of government since 1992, when…
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Hairpin tops $1M in RNA licensing deals
A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff with less than a year under its belt has sped past $1 million in licensing revenue on the lab’s patented “short hairpin RNA” technology….
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Sesame Workshop and the Collaborative Fund are launching a $10 million fund to invest in startups focused on technology that advances children’s education, health, nutrition and development. Sesame Workshop is…
LI facing housing, workforce, brain drain crisis
By GREGORY ZELLER // Even under the “most optimistic scenario,” Long Island will remain woefully short of rental housing over the next two decades, fueling a mounting loss of young…
Farmingdale adds aeronautics minor
Farmingdale State College has landed a New York first: Starting this spring, it will be the only college or university in the state offering Air Force-designed aerospace classes. Designed to…
Ecoclean boosts Copiague expansion
Doubling down on a green cleaning-products manufacturer planning a Copiague expansion was an easy call for the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. The IDA, which in December approved a 10-year,…
At Adelphi, game jams and dunking robots
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s innovation future took the stage at Adelphi University this weekend, with multiple events attracting some of the region’s most technological minds. Adelphi was not…
Why the Flint disaster couldn’t happen here
By GREGORY ZELLER // Drink up, Long Island: A large-scale lead contamination like the one infecting the public water supply in Flint, Mich. can’t happen here. That’s the good word…
Cohen awarded top trauma designation
The American College of Surgeons has verified Cohen Children’s Medical Center as a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center – the second time the ACS has granted top trauma marks to…
Suffolk IDA takes a shine to incubator project
To give spirits-focused startups a chance to properly ferment, two East End entrepreneurs have launched a “distillery incubator” – and the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency is picking up the…
Codagenix preps for fight against Zika virus
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook startup that digitally recreates viruses in order to reprogram their genomes is preparing to take on the Zika virus, which World Health Organization…
Northwell readies move into 3D markets
By GREGORY ZELLER // With 3D printing rapidly redefining what’s medically feasible, the Northwell Health system is rushing to study the commercial possibilities. Not only are scientists at the Feinstein Institute…
Feinstein launching Neural Tourniquet as newco
By GREGORY ZELLER // Meet Sanguistat, the corporate face of the latest technology spinning out of Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. For now, Sanguistat is not an Inc….
Marvin Minsky and the future of the workplace
By JOHN KOMINICKI // Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence whose work helped create the personal computer and the Internet, died in Boston over the weekend…
Battle lines drawn, once more, over IDA powers
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s that time of the year again: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is gunning for centralized control of local economic development, and Brian McMahon is firing back. McMahon,…