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What you need to know about new Blood Tests
There are some amazing young women doing incredible things and this is one you should know about…… Her name is Elizabeth Holmes and she has spent the last 12 years developing a blood test that requires only a drop or two to make a diagnosis. Soon the days of needle pokes and vials of blood required for diagnostic purposes will be a thing of the past. Beam me up Scotty. Her company is called Theranos and it was started in 2003 after she dropped out of Stanford University. Sound familiar? Not the first and likely not the last to find her mission in life at a young age and pursue it. According to the USA today article published July 2, 2012 (Marco Della Cava), Theranos ran in stealth mode for a decade while perfecting a method of running complex blood tests based