MINATEC in figures

This year Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) will once again enter the iGEM synthetic biology competition held by Boston’s MIT. The Grenoble team, which includes four students from Phelma and six from UGA’s School of Pharmacy, will develop a portable, self-contained cholera test kit. A DNA sequence from the bacteria responsible for cholera will be integrated into a DNA sequence from a common E. coli bacteria to detect cholera in a stool sample and… More information

The photonics platform, originally slated for delivery in November 2016—later pushed back to January 2017—, finally opened on May 2, 2017. In all, it took the builder six months to resolve the variety of issues plaguing the project and deliver a building compliant with the original specifications. One of the major problems observed was excessive vibration caused by malfunctioning acid-base extraction equipment. The move, which concerns 260 Leti Optics and Photonics Department employees and 360 pieces of lab equipment, will… More information

The 5G Champion project, in which Leti is participating alongside the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), will develop a 5G network prototype for the 28 GHz frequency band that will be rolled out during the Pyeongchang Olympics in February 2018, two years before the official launch of 5G. The proof-of-concept prototype will combine state-of-the-art millimeter-wave terrestrial radio communications and new satellite technologies for the first time ever. The project partners have set the ambitious objectives of reducing latency,… More information

The Isère General Council, already a partner of the Ideas Laboratory®, recently signed a new partnership, this time with the Experimenta expo, which will now be held once every two years. The next edition will take place in February 2018 at MINATEC, with activities spread out at sites across the Greater Grenoble area. Ideas Laboratory® also has a new partner, insurance company MAIF, evidence of the insurance industry’s growing interest in innovation in the era of Big Data and the… More information