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Another, yawn, record quarter for Applied DNA

Another quarter, another revenue record for Applied DNA Sciences. Chief Executive Officer James Hayward’s Stony Brook biotech firm, which provides unique DNA-based anti-theft and product-authentication solutions, announced FY2015 fourth-quarter earnings…


North Shore partners with Miami health firm

A research agreement between the North Shore-LIJ Health System and a Florida-based healthcare company could help doctors better predict susceptibility to cancer, cardiac conditions and neurological disorders before a person…


A fix for malfunctioning mitochondria

By GREGORY ZELLER // A tri-state connection may soon unravel the mystery of mitochondrial disease – a potential breakthrough for patients with type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and a host…


Design Edge up for top toy honors

By GREGORY ZELLER // Friends up high in the Walt Disney Co. and a digital upgrade have revived a popular children’s product from a decade ago – and earned the…


BNL lands 2 ‘Oscars of Innovation’

Brookhaven National Laboratory has been honored once more by R&D Magazine, which counted two BNL-developed technologies among its top 100 tech innovations of the year. Known as the “Oscars of…


LIBN parent selling to community paper group

GateHouse Media, a shopper and community news publisher with hundreds of titles in small markets across the United States, has agreed to acquire Dolan LLC, the parent company of Long…



ThermoLift added to WF Innovation Incubator

Stony Brook clean-energy startup ThermoLift has been added to Wells Fargo’s Innovation Incubator, a five-year, $10 million program designed to help accelerate next-gen environmental technologies. ThermoLift will receive up to $250,000 in…


Charmtech sets its sights on the mainstream

By GREGORY ZELLER // Interactive software designed to make digital content accessible to the vision- and learning-impaired may soon change the way everyone surfs the web. It’s the natural evolution…






Never an identity crisis at Tools4Ever

By GREGORY ZELLER // Couple old-fashioned customer service with ever-evolving product ideas and always think like a startup. That’s how Dean Wiech describes the recipe for Tools4ever, a global provider…