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What's the difference between Thanos and Theranos? |
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One makes half your wealth disappear, the other, all of it. |
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// Is it really impossible to do the 50 or so usual tests with only a single drop of blood? // |
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With your current wet-biochemistry technologies, yes. |
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In the future, no - likely to be practical, and indeed many diagnoses and measurements may become non-invasive, using saliva or other ... bodily fluids. |
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[marked-for-deletion] Wasn't that cool, that thing at the
center of the well-known large-scale fraud? |
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If you have disposable income and like to listen to, or read,
true crime books -- I very much enjoyed "Bad Blood" (the
2018 book, not the Taylor Swift song) by the (then-) Wall
Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, who was one of the
first calling bullshit on the company and deeply reported on
it across the arc of its existence. It goes a little bit into
technical details of why getting microsampling right is so
hard, based on interviews with technicians who were trying
to make the "inventions" work behind the scenes. (I have no
opinion on the
Taylor Swift song.) |
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// Wasn't that cool, that thing at the center of the well-known large-scale fraud? // |
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What, "Democracy" you mean ... ? |
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<Realizes previous anno is by SWMBO/> |
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<Sound of Borg Collective having a quiet little panic/> |
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//wet-biochemistry technologies// |
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Patterns of spotlight EM reflections, transmissions and absorption ?
Ultimately, doesn't everything sing differently in it's own unique way ? |
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In an answer to the question Could Theranos have ever
worked, by a blood testing expert with 40 years of
experience: |
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Yes. Most biochemistry tests now only need a few
microlitres of blood. But you need to allow for repeat
testing and some tests need different anticoagulants. |
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And there's a 2017 invention that may allow this to be
applicable, see link. |
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And then there is rHealth. See link |
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When Holms was a student she was told by Professor
Phyllis Gardener that "when a finger is pricked, the probe
breaks up cells, allowing debris, among other things, to
escape into the interstitial fluid. While it is feasible to
test for pathogens this way, a pinprick is too unreliable
for obtaining more nuanced readings. Furthermore, there
isn’t that much reliable data that you can reap from such
a small amount of blood." |
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If the universe is a hologram then the smallest part has all information. |
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More likely, in reality, a tiny sample has to contain a key giving the answer to the question, or an answer inferred from a set of keys. |
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Too tiny a sample and the set of keys just won't be there. |
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