Stanford Dropout Says Blood Startup Won't Be Another Theranos

  • Athelas highlights data amid echoes of Theranos’s origin story
  • FDA reviewing efficacy of tests against standard blood draws
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A Stanford University dropout wants to change blood testing with a machine that promises precise results from a fingerprick.

This is not the story of turtleneck-wearing Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos Inc. -- which soared to fame and then just as spectacularly crashed to Earth two years ago. With this new startup, some investors believe, things will be different.