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Patients suffering from Wilson’s disease—which causes copper to accumulate in the liver—could soon benefit from a new, more effective treatment with minimal side effects. Researchers at INAC and DSM (the CEA’s materials science division) have synthesized molecules capable of targeting liver cells to trap the copper. The molecules use coordination sites, much like small proteins […] >>

An international team led by researchers from INAC recently demonstrated that, in SOI transistors, electronic spin alignment under an outside magnetic field is much easier when restricted to a single “valley.” The valley index is a quantum number that shows the relationship between the energy and amount of electron movement within the silicon on a […] >>

A phase-locked loop (PLL) is the best way to generate the high frequencies—around 60 GHz—required for tomorrow’s 5G telecommunications and Wi-Fi. However, the higher the frequency, the lower the spectral quality—and transmission speeds. PhD candidate Clément Jany (who has since obtained a research position at Leti) set out to overcome this hurdle. And his solution […] >>

  MINATEC celebrates science The 2015 MINATEC “Parvis des Sciences” Science Fair and fifth annual EXPERIMENTA Art, Science, and Technology Fair will be held on the MINATEC campus from October 8–10, with plenty of science-related activities for everyone, from hardcore science enthusiasts to the general public. MINATEC held its first “Parvis des Sciences” in 2007, […] >>

The crystallography board game invented in 2013 by a group of first-year students from Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma was a hit at the closing festivities of the International Year of Crystallography held in Rabat, Morocco in late April. In fact, the game was so popular that Unesco and Dectris (the world’s leading manufacturer of detectors […] >>