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Well to be fair, there are some diseases and conditions that Theranos detected without issue. And actually it would be really helpful to have a in-home or in-s

Well to be fair, there are some diseases and conditions that Theranos detected without issue. And actually it would be really helpful to have a in-home or in-store instant diagnosis for those. The failure was in trying to be the everything box and committing fraud to get there. I actually do think it would have been revolutionary and the failure of Theranos has set the field back.

FireBeyond 3y ago
> Well to be fair, there are some diseases and conditions that Theranos detected without issue. With their own equipment? I don't believe so. Theranos as a company could reliably do this... they just did it with Siemens equipment with the labels removed. > I actually do think it would have been revolutionary It would be, were it possible. Not that we can't find things to be possible that were previously thought not to be, but this is pretty well established biology, and has been steadily researched for decades by both academia and industry (all of the big lab players would love it if they could do droplet analysis)... if there is an advance there, it's a pretty safe bet to say it was never coming from a 19 yo freshman chem eng dropout.