Founder Elizabeth Holmes, who is facing a two - year ban by U.S. regulators from running a clinical testing company, used the session at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's annual scientific meeting to introduce the «miniLab» testing
device, a 95 - pound
diagnostic tool that can fit on a
tabletop.
Building up from
tabletop devices, by last year the company was employing 150 people and was working with C - 2, a 23 - meter - long tube ringed by magnets and bristling with control
devices,
diagnostic instruments, and particle beam generators.