The patch never made it to market, but Holmes quickly redirected the company with the creation of «Edison» — a machine that could test for a variety of disease using
a single pinprick of blood.
Not exact matches
«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a
pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a
single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.
The guidelines for diagnosis require
pinprick sensations to be tested in each dermatome (an area of skin mainly supplied by a
single spinal nerve), and further measuring the strength of ten pre-selected muscles on both sides of the body.