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Out for blood: the Theranos trial

Out for blood: the Theranos trial

Update: 2021-09-013
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Elizabeth Holmes founded a big blood-testing startup; her claims were founded on very little. As her trial begins we ask how the company got so far before it all crumbled. Research on primates is increasingly frowned upon in the West, leaving a strategic opportunity in places such as China. And lessons in a lost novel by French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

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Out for blood: the Theranos trial

Out for blood: the Theranos trial