Unless they believe that they could cheat or bribe the FDA.
What makes them special? Large pharma companies tend to lose billions of dollars in valuation when a promising drug fails FDA trials -- clearly, they are unable to "cheat or bribe" the FDA.
But going back to Theranos, I believe the problem they ran into is local variance: when you analyse tiny amounts of blood, two samples from the same blood draw end up with very different measurements for some quantities of interest. You just need a larger sample and that is a big problem for Theranos.
But going back to Theranos, I believe the problem they ran into is local variance: when you analyse tiny amounts of blood, two samples from the same blood draw end up with very different measurements for some quantities of interest. You just need a larger sample and that is a big problem for Theranos.
I think that's an issue but Theranos tests don't need to match existing tests in accuracy to be useful in a clinical setting.
Both blood to be drawn from veins and money are limited resources. If Theranos can mange over time to test two orders of magnitude c...
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