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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I worked in labs in my 20s and I work in research/licensing in Biotech. I am much like her Stanford professor who saw from the get-go that she had no concept of the science behind what she claimed she could do.

Diagnostics for different diseases/viruses/infections, etc. are all detected via different reactions and means.  Different reagents and chemical reactions.

Her idea, of course, sounded absolutely wonderful!  One drop of blood from a slight finger prick could test for 200 diseases/infections in one tiny cartridge...anyone who has basic chem/bio BS degree could see how that would not work.[/quote] Right--but maybe in the future it will be possible. Maybe she planted the seed for someone else? There was a time when catching a criminal based on DNA was impossible, or preventing polio, or sending a man to the moon. All of these things were once impossible, but now every day no bid deal occurrences.[/quote]

Scientific advances don’t work that way. Historically, science is advanced by revolutionary new models that completely change the paradigm. Not by chipping away at an unsolvable problem. In other words, here we have Holmes who wanted to take the fear and pain out of blood testing. Her solution, which was largely illogical, was to take only one drop of blood. Better paradigms are to find a means of testing that doesn’t involve blood. But as we see, she lacked the education and grounding in science to have truly revolutionary and functional ideas.[/quote]

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