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Re:U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating La... by gmarx on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:15PM (#12057950)
Not so (if I understand your point). They were using the competitor systems on a few drops of blood. I read they were diluting the blood and then correcting the results. This is doing the same thing without the tech in the hopes that they would eventually make their tech work
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Re:U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating La... by jasonlaramburu on Friday July 08, 2016 @05:41PM (#12058841)
Interesting, didn't realize they were using finger pricks (few drops of blood) on machines designed for venous draws. I guess the important point is that whatever they tried didn't deliver real value to their users (i.e. they did not 'make something people want').
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