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The MINATEC campus got a new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) earlier this year. The FEI Tecnai Osiris microscope, offering resolution close to the angstrom, was acquired by Serma Technologies, a services company that has called the BHT home for the past several years. The equipment rounds out Serma Technologies’ own capabilities, of course. But the […] >>

A handful of nurses in the Vercors mountains just outside of Grenoble have started testing Avalun’s LabPad® in a two-year pilot program backed by the Rhône-Alpes Regional Board of Health. The program coincides with the commercial launch of the device—a connected, pocket-sized testing lab that can measure blood coagulation from a single drop of blood […] >>

Leti engineer Olivier Ménard raised $65,000 from some 1,000 backers in 55 countries during a recent Kickstarter campaign for the Airboard, a personal project of Ménard’s. And just what is the Airboard? A miniature, open-source, communicating (by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sigfox, etc.) computer that can be used to quickly program IoT prototypes to confirm proof-of-concept. A […] >>

MultiX, a company specializing in X-ray spectrometry-based subsystems for detection applications, has brought in €3 million from a group of investors that includes CEA Investissement. The company raised €3 million in 2011 and €4 million in 2013. MultiX technology is used in airport baggage scanners and food-industry inspection equipment. MultiX is pursuing its partnership with […] >>

This June the website “38 de Sciences” (a joint endeavor of the French Physics Society and the Fondation Nanosciences) is adding a new careers section with job offers. The goal is to centralize links to available internship, PhD, post-doc, research, and teaching positions on the websites of over 100 organizations (including laboratories, institutes, doctoral schools, […] >>