Theranos's lesson for investors: speak to lab workers.

Theranos's lesson for investors: speak to lab workers.
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Theranos 给投资者的教训:与实验室工作人员交谈。

DOI:
10.1038/d41586-022-00167-7
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发表时间:
2022
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
Unwin RD
Unwin RD
中科院分区:
综合性期刊1区
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The fraud conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, the chief executive of the now-defunct US biotechnology company Theranos in Palo Alto, California, highlights the need for early peer review of scientific data from start-up companies (Nature 601, 173–174; 2022). But that is unlikely to happen in the highly secretive start-up world, in which investment is based on the only real asset of value—intellectual property and know-how. So how can investors perform suitable due diligence? In our view, they must speak directly to the engineers and scientists expected to deliver on breakthrough technologies.