Theranos

Theranos ˈθɛrənoʊs was an American privately held corporation which was touted as a breakthrough health technology company with claims of having devised blood tests that required only very small amounts of blood and could be performed very rapidly using small automated devices the company had developed. Walk into your local drugstore provide a few drops of blood via finger-prick and get screened.

Theranos Ceo Going After A Dream Elizabeth Holmes Fall From Grace

The Theranos Trial.

. The Theranos founder is charged with 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy after her blood-testing start-up once valued at 9 billion. Using a nanotainer a small device designed to draw. What You Should Know.

Theranos was a privately held healthcare technology company founded by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes in 2003. This Theranos engineer orders a glue-dispensing robot from a company in New Jersey then affixed a pipette to the robotic arm and programmed the arm to mimic the steps that a lab scientist would. 25 2021 -- The promise seemed too good to be true.

The company was criticized for having a board of directors primarily composed of former diplomats and military personnel. Theranos leadership also distinctly lacked the expertise required to develop a sophisticated medical testing technology Carreyrou said. Theranos the blood-testing start-up that promised to revolutionize health care only to collapse after its hyped product turned.

Theranos destroyed database that proved blood test was a fraud.

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