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Once Theranos's patents lost their teeth, devices similar to what was in those patents appeared on the market within a few years. All from big pharma companies
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
Once Theranos's patents lost their teeth, devices similar to what was in those patents appeared on the market within a few years. All from big pharma companies. Today, a lot of blood testing machines can run many tests on a few hundred microliters of blood.
When you go get blood work done, they collect a vial, but often use only a few drops at a time.
- pvaldes 4y agoAfter being concentrated?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoUsually not, actually, although some more complicated tests do involve sample prep. For most tests, it's a small microfluidic cartridge and a tiny amount of blood.
- pvaldes 4y agoI would remain skeptical about this claim. There are a lot of exploratory tests that can be done with a drop of blood and have a solid history behind, for more complicated tests we would fall again in a "Theranos magic" case. I hope that the investors finally learn their lesson and accepted that if you want to produce good results you need to starting with good data. In science there is not sense in finding the minimum algorithm possible that vomits the desired results. Alive beings are complicated So either the claim that somebody is building the nbext theranos machine or recycling theranos machines for doing what theranos couldn't... either is false, or is just old technology wrapped in glitter, or would send serious doubts in the confidence in the results. It depends on the details.