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In the future, diabetics suffering from neuropathy (in their hands and feet, for example) could benefit from a new drug called atexakin, which regenerates damaged nerve fibers. Switzerland’s Relief Therapeutics Holding AG recently signed an agreement with Merck to develop, manufacture, and commercialize the drug. Merck then turned to Grenoble’s PX’Therapeutics to develop an efficient […] >>

Fluoptics has carved out the top slot on Europe’s real-time fluorescence imaging solutions market. The company has implemented more than 100 of its Fluobeam® non-invasive surgical-assistance systems in sixteen countries. Fluoptics’ technology is currently the only one in the world capable of generating images of parathyroid glands using light during tricky thyroid surgery—ultimately improving patient […] >>

A joint INAC-CNRS-Thales research team achieved record intensity- and sign-tunable spin-charge conversion in the two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between a layer of strontium titanate and another layer of lanthanum aluminate. The conversion rate was five to ten times higher than with the materials currently used. The researchers worked at 7 K, injecting a […] >>

The 3D-NoC network-on-chip developed by Leti, STMicroelectronics, and Mentor Graphics under a project coordinated by IRT Nanoelec offers 20% to 40% less energy consumption and higher speeds than other NoCs. The NoC developed is built on two 28 nm FDSOI stacked circuits, each with 96 processor cores. The cores are integrated on a 65 nm […] >>

Researchers from Leti and G2Elab are working to develop a new kind of medical imaging technology, “fast field-cycling MRI” (FFC-MRI). The research is being conducted under the four-year EU IDentIFY project, which kicked off in 2016. The new MRI is expected to be both more accurate and affordable than current technologies. The concept was developed […] >>