A Theranos that works, Best Buy’s home health play, & a chat with B Capital’s Robert Mittendorf

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A familiar blood testing pitch

I trekked across the Bay to Palo Alto to get an inside look at how a prominent genetics and big data expert is trying to overhaul blood testing. For about six years, Stanford professor Mike Snyder and his lab have been refining a method for collecting individual drops of blood and analyzing their molecules for health indicators. (Throughout one week in 2019, he drew 98 drops of his own blood to test the process, dragging a dry-ice filled cooler with him to each meeting.)

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