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Is there a chance Theranos may have been on to something?
What are the odds that the regulations in place only favored the big players who helped to draft the very rules and laws in place in which they thrive?
Is microfluidics, physics limitations withstanding, ripe for innovation? Is it even possible to do? Is it something thats only limited to the big players?
that being said...she and her company sound fraudulent as hell.
- PaulHoule 10y agoYou can't do qualitative work with a combination of blood, sweat and intercellular juice that you squeeze out of a finger prick. You might be able to test for the presence or absence of a gene, but to determine cholesterol levels, electrolytes, etc it isn't feasible because you don't know what you are getting. Back in the 1980s they developed fast cholesterol tests, for instance, that work from a fingerprick. They used to use these for mass screenings, but the accuracy is awful compared to the real test. I bought a pack of them and found that I don't bleed enough of the right kind of blood for them to work. Real cholesterol tests, on the other hand, are a bit expensive for real because you do have to get a good sample and centrifuge it since you are not just trying to determine one quantitative number but differentiate between HDL and LDL types that settle out at different places in the tube.