More Than 1,000 Lab Tests from a Drop of Blood
The secret that hundreds of employees are now refining involves devices that automate and miniaturize more than 1,000 laboratory tests, from routine blood work to advanced genetic analyses. Theranos’s processes are faster, cheaper and more accurate than the conventional methods and require only microscopic blood volumes, not vial after vial of the stuff. The experience will be revelatory to anyone familiar with current practices, which often seem like medicine by Bram Stoker…Theranos is committing to a half-off discount on Medicare fees. “So a test that costs $100 now, we’ll do $50 or less.
“Ms. Holmes, a 29-year-old chemical and electrical engineer and entrepreneur, dropped out of Stanford as an undergraduate after founding a life sciences company called Theranos in 2003.”
Every student should be thinking this way.
Yes, it has been ingrained too often that college is mandatory.
Self-starters are what founded this country, and what will continue to propel us to new heights never before seen. College is unnecessary if you have a quality idea. However, it should be noted, that degrees such like philosophy and political science can help promote the human condition.
Could you even imagine how much you or your kids will/would save by not going to college? I think if we all started doing that, we would have a middle class again one day.
Someone got lucky. It doesn’t mean the entire unraveling of higher education.
For you to believe that higher education is even decent is daft. The whole system needs to be reworked. The model Plato once created is a shell of his efforts.
I went to college and I gained a greater grasp of my major in order to do what I needed in everyday life. Your philosophy and political science is unrealistic, and it is why liberal arts majors work at starbucks.
Most information obtained while getting a degree can be obtained through Google. Apprenticeship, group brainstorming, and thought driven discussion is unique. In order to become better at life we must first gain understanding. Understanding is the key to advancement, stagnation and recessions are brought on by dead ideas. In order to succeed academic institutions must remove their model of sit down, spit out, and get out. We must learn basic understanding while in college, and then implement it into our job field of choice. Which in this case, could be entrepreneurship.
Just about everything including higher education, healthcare and education in general needs to be reworked.
Anything that requires less blood and money is a great thing!
How does it normally take several pints of blood to conduct a handful of tests and there really only needs to be a single drop of blood to get anything?
Most information obtained while getting a degree can be obtained through Google. Apprenticeship, group brainstorming, and thought driven discussion is unique. In order to become better at life we must first gain understanding. Understanding is the key to advancement, stagnation and recessions are brought on by dead ideas. In order to succeed academic institutions must remove their model of sit down, spit out, and get out. We must learn basic understanding while in college, and then implement it into our job field of choice. Which in this case, could be entrepreneurship.
We should be spending money on ideas like this! Not the endless amount going into the bottomless ACA pit.