Bad Blood

interactive iPad sales tool Theranos planned to use to pitch doctors. As the months passed, Kate and Mike also began to develop ...

TBWA\Health. He wondered why it wasn’t handling this assignment or at least being consulted. Elizabeth had mentioned a report se ...

questioned especially the notion that you could get enough blood from a finger to run tests accurately. Tracy’s skepticism gave ...

one at Theranos had bothered to think it through, as far as Kate could tell. — THE FORTY-EIGHT HOURS before the website went liv ...

Theranos, we can perform all of our lab tests on a sample 1/₁,₀₀₀ the size of a typical blood draw.” In the new version of the b ...

saw nothing unusual or worrisome in that. ...

A | FOURTEEN | Going Live lan Beam was sitting in his office reviewing lab reports when Elizabeth poked her head in and asked hi ...

University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (“Wits” to South Africans), he’d moved to the United States to take premed class ...

since the Theranos lab was only testing a few samples a week from Safeway’s employee clinic. What did seem more troubling was th ...

the miniLab, had been under development for more than two and a half years. But the device remained very much a work in progress ...

attention span. Arnav Khannah, a young mechanical engineer who worked on the miniLab, figured out a surefire way to get Sunny of ...

Lieutenant Colonel David Shoemaker, Elizabeth had abandoned her plan of putting the Theranos devices in Walgreens stores and ope ...

changes.) Elizabeth wanted a machine that was more versatile, he’d remind Kyle. Compared to big commercial blood analyzers, anot ...

used on patients. However, as Elizabeth saw it, she didn’t have several years. Twelve months earlier, on June 5, 2012, she’d sig ...

tinker with the ADVIA 1800, one of the lab’s commercial analyzers. The ADVIA was a hulking 1,320-pound machine the size of two l ...

Alan had reservations about the dilution part. The Siemens analyzer already diluted blood samples when it performed its assays. ...

the latter was a phenomenon known as “hemolysis,” which occurs when red blood cells burst and release extra potassium into the s ...

they were doing from Siemens representatives when they came by to service the German manufacturer’s machines. Changes had also b ...

That response made no sense to Anjali. Walgreens was just a business partner. Theranos’s ultimate customers would be the patient ...

S | FIFTEEN | Unicorn he hated the artist’s illustration. He had made her head huge and given her a vacuous, doe-eyed grin that ...