Civic puts retirement housing up for debate
The Port Jefferson Station/Terryville Civic Association will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 27, to discuss the proposed housing development for the Heatherwood...
Diabetes and the eye
With diabetes, we tend to concentrate on the stabilization of the disease as a whole. This is a good thing. However, there is not...
SB’s Hurowitz helps build device to send to Mars
One of the leaders on a high-powered team, Joel Hurowitz recently helped win a $1.4 million bid to build something that will eventually take...
Capturing another world
When Justine Haupt was a teenager, her mother had a camera that wasn’t working. “I can fix it,” Justine said. Her mother, Lorraine Labate,...
SB’s Lynch ruffles feathers with penguin population study
Calling them as she sees them has stirred up some trouble for Heather Lynch. An ecologist at Stony Brook, Lynch recently shared her estimate...
Maximizing your odds of healthy longevity
When asked what was more important, longevity or healthy aging (quality of life), more people choose the latter. Why would you want to live...
Will My Brother Still Inherit?
By Linda M. Toga, Esq.
The Facts: My mother died recently. She and my brother, who is my only sibling, had not spoken to each other...
CSHL’s Hammell wins Rita Allen Award for work on jumping genes
Molly Hammell had her head way beyond the clouds when she met Victor Ambros. At the time, she was a graduate student studying how...
Niacin and HDL questioned
Niacin has recently become a highly contested drug. In my last article, “Reducing triglycerides,” I mentioned that niacin has powerful effects to treat elevated...
BNL’s James, a ‘visionary,’ scores sixth R and D 100 Award
Ralph James has surpassed Derek Jeter. Working with a team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, James, a prolific scientific innovator, has now won...
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