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Etienne Perret, a faculty member at Grenoble Institute of Technology and a research scientist at LCIS, an FMNT lab based in Valence, has just won a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his chipless RFID tags. The grant will allow Perret to hire PhD candidates and post-docs and purchase antenna characterization equipment. The […] >>

GIANT, a partner of MIT’s Global Teaching Labs program, will host five MIT students for four weeks in January. The MIT undergrads in the program must complete teaching assignments abroad. They will teach—in French—the high school students participating in the Nano@School program and will help to develop and facilitate new workshops on low-tech solutions and […] >>

France’s Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) recently approved an LMGP lab specializing in the interfaces between biological and other materials for a project on bone regeneration. Catherine Picart and her team of biomaterials engineers are investigating BMP*-mediated cotransduction to better understand how the bioactive proteins initiate the differentiation between stem cells to regenerate bone […] >>

Sunscreens protect the skin from sunburn, of course. But can they effectively prevent skin DNA damage due to exposure to UV rays, a phenomenon that starts to occur before sunburn appears? Pharmaceutical company Laboratoires Pierre-Fabre turned to a team of INAC researchers specialized in the field to find answers. The researchers developed very sensitive analysis […] >>

Leti recently announced that is working on the ambitious CorticalSight project alongside a consortium of five other partners led by the Institut De la Vision in Paris. The project is funded by the United States Department of Defense DARPA agency. The goal of the CorticalSight project is to restore sight in patients not eligible for […] >>