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Fluoptics raised €2 million from business angels in September, which it will use to market its Fluobeam® system for several clinical applications in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The Fluobeam® fluorescence imaging system already has the CE marking for medical devices and should get FDA approval in early 2014; approval is pending in several […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma signed up a new corporate partner this fall: Altran France. Altran is a leading global innovation consulting and advanced engineering firm, with €742 million of revenue and 9,000 employees in 2012 (including 2,200 hired that year). It has a large presence in southeastern France, especially in Lyon, Grenoble, and Pierrelatte. The […] >>

Pascal Febvre, a researcher at IMEP-LAHC and the University of Savoie, has outlined a superconductivity roadmap for digital SQUIDs, or superconducting quantum interference devices. His roadmap was published in Superconductor Science and Technology and focuses on two applications: detecting solar bursts—which are highly disruptive to space communications—and earthquakes. Pascal’s research team at the University of […] >>

The iGEM 2013 team from Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma—which competed in the synthetic biology category of MIT’s iGEM competition—didn’t make it past the European qualifications in Lyon in October. But the four students didn’t go home empty handed: they won a gold medal for their project as well as the best mathematical model award. The […] >>

LXRepair, an expert in enzyme activity testing and DNA repair, was created on September 26 from a research project at INAC. It was founded by an INAC researcher and a business developer who both have ambitious growth plans: they expect to make their first kits by the end of this year and start hiring staff […] >>