Is Theranos a tech revolution in healthcare or marketing hype cloaked in secrecy?
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:01
in Physics & Chemistry
If one company were to symbolise the entire ethos of Silicon Valley, it would be Theranos. Founded by Elizabeth Holmes who was 19 at the time, the company set out to "reinvent" the laboratory blood testing industry by using "revolutionary finger-stick technology" which would make testing hundreds of different tests possible from blood obtained by a single prick of a finger.