FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1

Re:FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1 by kzhahou on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:01AM (#9824185)

For those of us that are more conversant in microservice golang APIs... explain?

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Re:FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1 by henryaj on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:07AM (#9824219)

It's the kind of biochemical assay that pregnancy tests use, so not exactly cutting edge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA#Sandwich_ELISA

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Re:FDA approves Theranos test for HSV-1 by hanklazard on Friday July 03, 2015 @11:35AM (#9826126)

Furthermore, certain types of ELISA have been in use in clinics and hospitals for many years ... but they have always required venous sticks and a lot more blood. ELISA has also historically been expensive due to the amount of antibody required--the microfluidics approach is much cheaper in this regard.

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