News : Innovation & Society

The Artips publishing company’s free art and music newsletters count an impressive 500,000 subscribers. In May, Artips introduced a science newsletter called—you guessed it—Sciencetips. Written for the general public, the twice-weekly newsletter, available in French only, brings subscribers serious science in a fun, easy-to-digest format, with offbeat anecdotes and illustrations, video, and animations. The CEA […] >>

The EU R&D project Convergence, coordinated by EPFL in Lausanne, brings together a consortium of seventeen partners, including Grenoble Institute of Technology (and the school’s LMGP and IMEP-LaHC labs) and Leti. The project supports the development of new autonomous portable environmental and health testing devices. The research will cover everything from data transmission and storage […] >>

The Rotary Club wrote Grenoble-Alpes University a check for €37,000 to support research on 3D bioprinting of engineered skin conducted in partnership with the CEA and Grenoble University Medical Center. INAC and BIG, also involved in the research, helped select the bio printer, a latest-generation Cellink BIO X. The research aims to engineer human skin […] >>

The CEA Tech Grenoble showroom and regional centers have been around for six years already! Beginning this year, CEA Tech industrial partners will be able to host their own showrooms. Several customers—like cable manufacturer Nexans—have already taken advantage of the new service. Others, like the Nord- Isère Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will soon follow […] >>

The high-throughput Cytonote Cell counter, released in July 2017 by Iprasense, lets labs monitor up to 96 cell cultures in parallel and in real time. Like the company’s previous-generation cell counter, the new product delivers statistics on cell viability and requires no specific sample preparation. The product is the third in Iprasense’s lineup to leverage […] >>