Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and...
by amacbride on Sunday May 13, 2018 @10:18AM
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What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.
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Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and...
by dnautics on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:04PM
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it's not theoretically possible, due to the statistics of small numbers. You can resolve the nanotainer problem by collecting many of them, but by the time you can measure a statistical difference, you might as well have collected a large volume of blood in the first place.
Re:Tim Draper defends Theranos and its disgraced founder and...
by petra on Sunday May 13, 2018 @11:08AM
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I agree that analyzing small volumes of blood is theoretically possible , but afaik it's yet unclear that you can get good samples from blood drawn from fingers, because it's mixed with interstitial fluid.