News : Innovation & Society

The IMBM research team led by Catherine Picart (LMGP) has built a strong reputation in the development of bioactive materials for bone reconstruction. Picart’s work on breast cancer, however, is not as well known. The scientist recently joined the three-year, €2.2 million 3D-Oncochip project, which is backed by the French Single Interministerial Fund and led […] >>

Tell us about SnapLab, the project that originated in Grenoble and that won a gold medal at the iGEM finals at MIT. SnapLab is a portable and very easy-to-use cholera test kit that can detect a sequence of nucleic acid in a stool sample and emit fluorescence if the bacteria responsible for cholera are present. […] >>

Turning a complex technology into a product that meets real-world customer needs and finding a business model that actually makes money is no mean feat. CEA and GEM will address this vast topic at the 4th Innovation Marketing Day to be held on March 15 at Maison MINATEC. The event is designed for professionals from […] >>

Why would a semiconductor material like zinc oxide (ZnO) offer better piezoelectric properties in nanowire form than as a thin film? Researchers at IMEP-LaHC have come up with an explanation. The tip and sides of the nanowire trap the Fermi level, repelling the free carriers in the material, thus eliminating the typical piezoelectric screening effect. […] >>

Bringing high-speed internet access to sparsely-populated rural areas can be a challenge when you only have access to non-contiguous frequency bands—unless you have Leti’s BF-OFDM technology, that is*! Leti just rolled out the technology in Scotland’s Orkney Islands on a test basis, where it was a success. Compared to the OFDM waveforms used in 4G […] >>