Bad Blood

The former statesman, who in addition to crafting the Reagan administration’s foreign policy also served as secretary of labor a ...

accurate lab results in his email in-box before he even left the building. What he didn’t know was that Elizabeth was planning t ...

then. The company was about to announce the launch of its innovative finger-stick tests in one of the country’s largest retail c ...

Granted, the company seemed like a much surer bet now. Don’s email said Theranos had “signed contracts and partnerships with ver ...

Spotify, the music streaming service that in November 2013 raised $250 million at a price per share that valued the whole compan ...

Mattis during his frequent trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. He wore a gun holstered under his jacket or around his ankle at all ti ...

that way. These three hundred tests represented 99 to 99.9 percent of all laboratory requests, and Theranos had submitted every ...

were fellows at the Hoover Institution. After befriending Shultz, Elizabeth had methodically cultivated each one of them and off ...

On February 4, 2014, Partner Fund purchased 5,655,294 Theranos shares at a price of $17 a share—$2 a share more than the Lucas V ...

S | SIXTEEN | The Grandson tanding in the middle of a crowd of his new colleagues in the cafeteria of the old Facebook building, ...

days later, Tyler had been informed that the protein engineering group he’d originally been assigned to was being disbanded and ...

previous summer, he hadn’t been allowed near one, so his anticipation was high when a Chinese scientist named Ran Hu showed him ...

senior scientists how they defined an outlier, no one could give her a straight answer. Erika and Tyler might be young and inexp ...

the clinical lab and assigned to Normandy, the room downstairs with the lab’s Edison machines. During the Thanksgiving holiday, ...

failures. Normally, two such failures in a row would have been cause to take the devices off-line and recalibrate them. Moreover ...

large number of uninsured patients, who they believed would be especially receptive to the low prices Theranos offered. So, in a ...

said he was throwing Elizabeth a thirtieth birthday party and he wanted his grandson to come and play a tune for her. Tyler had ...

was the representations Theranos made about the precision of its blood tests: the company claimed that its tests had coefficient ...

need for such contortions. The conversation shifted to the syphilis test and what Tyler felt was its overstated sensitivity. Aga ...

tested proficiency-testing samples on commercial analyzers. But since it was now using the Edisons for some patient tests, Alan ...