PARIS: After more than 17,000 years of silence and decades forgotten in a French museum, a shell fashioned into a horn by our prehistoric ancestors has been played again as a result of new research published Wednesday.
A seashell found in a French cave appears to have been modified by prehistoric people so that it could be used like a trumpet, making it a new addition to the Stone Age orchestra.
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Grapheal Raises EUR1.9 Million to Advance Development of Embedded Biosensing Technology and Application in Digital COVID Testing and Wound Monitoring
February 9, 2021 GMT
GRENOBLE, France (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 9, 2021
Grapheal, a developer of graphene-based embedded biosensors for on-site diagnostics and remote patient monitoring, announced today that it has raised a total of EUR1.9 million in equity and non-dilutive sources, including seed financing from Novalis Biotech’s Acceleration Fund, several innovation grants, and Bpifrance convertible notes and loans.
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The funds will be used to advance the industrialization of Grapheal’s flexible graphene-based biosensor technology. This sensing technology combines novel electronic nanomaterials, embedded wireless electronics, software data analysis, and medical cloud IoT technologies. The first two applications of the technolo