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06-17-2018, 09:22 PM
http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/KVDukPjYbhfR.BYuJtWxYQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_independent_635/3debaaa0627758378c7a51965ad860a6 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/founder-apos-revolutionary-apos-us-114825130.html)Theranos was established by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003 when she was just a 19-year-old Stanford drop out. Within a year it had won $6m (£4.5m) backing from investors attracted by Ms Holmes’s desire to disrupt the industry monopoly over blood tests – and she was toasted as a rising star of Silicon Valley. Ms Holmes and Mr Balwani claimed the Theranos analyser could perform a full range of clinical tests using tiny blood samples drawn from a finger stick, asserting that its results were more accurate, reliable and faster than those from conventional blood tests.



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