10 Jun 2024

Theranos

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 10 June 2024
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 18: Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (C) arrives at federal court with her partner Billy Evans (R) and mother Noel Holmes on November 18, 2022 in San Jose, California. Holmes appeared in federal court for sentencing after being convicted of four counts of fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors in her company Theranos, which offered blood testing lab services.   Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes at federal court with her partner Billy Evans and mother Noel Holmes on November 18, 2022 in San Jose, California. Photo: AFP / JUSTIN SULLIVAN

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Duncan McGillivray Photo: MacDiarmid Institute

Professor Duncan McGillivray, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Auckland, talks to Bryan Crump about the hope that we might one day have a simple blood test that can tell us all manner of detail about our health.

And why Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos were miles away from it's promised test.

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