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I think the microfluidic testing could have worked with ML and computer vision. I believe there was/is an Israeli startup working on it a few years after Theran
by carabiner 3y ago
I think the microfluidic testing could have worked with ML and computer vision. I believe there was/is an Israeli startup working on it a few years after Theranos.
- changoplatanero 3y agoI heard that the reason why it can't be done is that to get those quantitative measurements you have to react the blood sample with certain chemicals. To do multiple tests you need enough blood that you can divide it up into samples and react each one separately. So if you only start off with one drop its hopeless to run the full suite of tests.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoNo, it is physically impossible to run quantitative tests on very small amounts of capillary blood. There have been studies (can dig them up but you can Google for them) that show that capillary blood simply is not homogenous enough at these one drop volumes. Meaning it doesn't matter how good your technology is, it's just not possible.