Expecting Data From Theranos, Lab Experts Get New Product
- Founder Holmes questioned about technology at medical meeting
- ‘Not yet a game changer,’ panelist says of new device
Theranos Reveals Diagnostic-Testing Tech at Meeting
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It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.’s controversial blood-testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the science behind the claims that the startup could do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.
Instead, what some of the nation’s top lab-testing scientists and researchers packed into a ballroom at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia got was the introduction of a totally new device.