I assume you mean this in jest. I get it.
To be fair/serious if you add the "near past" with "near future" you might get enough time for things to change.
Was there something fundamentally impossible about blood analysis with a drop of blood?
To be fair/serious if you add the "near past" with "near future" you might get enough time for things to change.
Was there something fundamentally impossible about blood analysis with a drop of blood?
Also, many tests require a centrifuge, so that's something else you have to account for if your goal is to perform the same tests with only one drop of blood. Unless your plan is to pull some Star Trek-level technology out of your hat.
TL,DR: you didn't need to consult a team of PhDs to debunk Theranos's business plan, you could have asked any experienced med tech. The investors didn't bother doing either.
That was basically the plan. Or failing that, to convince people that such technology existed or was close to existing. It's not too implausible that the centrifuge could be replaced with diffraction analysis or something since the goal is to test for the same things, not necessarily to "do the same tests." But that doesn't help if you're looking for something present in one in a million blood cells and only have a quarter-million cells to look at.