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Re:Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S by Fede_V on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:55PM (#11523954)
Are you trying to model metabolites as perfectly diffusing molecules with D^2 proportional to an idealized Stokes radius?
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Re:Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S by lvs on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:09PM (#11524003)
No. I multiplied 1 nM by Avogadro's number. Do you have any reason to believe that free IgG is not uniformly distributed at steady-state in circulation? ... Because that's what they're testing for.
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Re:Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S by alsocasey on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:37PM (#11524123)
Many (most) of the things we're interested in measuring in blood are bound to some sort large macro-molecular assembly... be it cells, lipid vesicles, large protein agglomerates, etc.
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Re:Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S by lvs on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:36PM (#11524355)
In the clinic the most common testing is metabolic paneling (levels of various salts, urea, glucose, creatine, etc.), serology (for circulating antibodies), or cell counts (which they weren't doing, as far as I know).
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