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In the early 90's, a research contract between the Department CNRS-UMR 6600 Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne and the French Space Agency (CNES) allowed the development of a muscle testing device dedicated to study the mechanical characteristics of muscles crossing the ankle joint. In 1994, a second prototype was installed in the medical centre of the Gagarin Cosmonauts Centre at Star City and evaluated by experiments conducted on cosmonauts after a long-term spaceflight. In 1998, a third prototype was constructed in collaboration with the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM) to study the mechanical properties of muscles crossing the elbow joint of children suffering from myopathies.

The innovative technology of these muscle testing devices is based on the combination of different kinds of mechanical testing on one apparatus, mainly quick-release method and sinusoidal perturbations. These two specific test methods allows a better evaluation of the biomechanical properties of the musculotendinous and joint system. Thanks to these additional tests, the muscle testing devices of Bio2M goes beyond the standard isokinetic strength apparatus (dynamometers), which are currently used.

Bio2M was founded as a spin-off company by scientists from the Department of Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne (Professor F. Goubel, N. Khider, D. Lambertz). The scientific profile of the founders and their competencies in different field of skeletal muscle research make the founders fully complementary actors in the development of biomedical devices and custom research services to analyse skeletal muscles.

Bio2M offers custom research services to the study of skeletal muscle. The originality of the custom research services is based on multi-disciplinary studies, including biomechanical, biochemical and electrophysiological assays.