Theranos screwed up legit blood test innovations for everybody

Theranos is dead. 

But will the dream of a device that can analyze multiple health factors from a small amount of blood be buried along with it?

What Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was proposing, as outlined in the popular HBO documentary about her ill-fated, fraudulent company that aired this week, was scientifically impossible. She told the world she could run 200 tests on a fingerprick-worth of blood using a device she called the Edison, but The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley reveals she faked the impossible, putting patients' lives at risk.

The extent of the Theranos grift is so gargantuan, its effects are still rippling even after Holmes was first caught lying in 2015. Read more...