Sentences with phrase «testing companies use»

DNA testing companies use the SNPs to calculate people's genetic risk of developing complex diseases.

Not exact matches

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testing.

In March, the company inked a contract with NASA to use the Stennis Space Center for rocket tests.

Zymeworks would use its knowledge of computing to develop and license platforms: the software engines with which other companies could test their compounds virtually so as to stand a better chance of success in the laboratory.

The story said that the vast majority of Theranos's blood tests were not run on its own machines, and that instead, the company was using machines purchased from others.

Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

Companies can also «test the waters» using the new provisions of Regulation A — meaning that you can let the world know you are thinking of raising investment dollars.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

Theranos is the first company to start using blood tests that primarily rely on microfluidics, and it says it gets unparalleled results.

A company that designs tests that it uses only in its own labs, as Theranos does, doesn't need to get them approved, but the FDA is considering changing its policy.

Theranos» lawyer acknowledged to the WSJ that proprietary technology was not used in all of the company's tests, but in a later statement called doubts about Edison's accuracy «baseless» and «erroneous,» claiming that the quoted sources «were never in a position to understand Theranos» technology.»

On Oct. 15, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an investigative report that claims the company does not use its own «revolutionary» blood testing technology, called Edison, for the majority of lab testing, largely because of concerns about accuracy.

He realized it was time to bring a business person in to focus on growing the company and let him return to testing the product: «We want to make sure the Nymi wristband is very user - friendly so people would enjoy using it once it launches.»

They also recently announced that the company has raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding, resources that will be used to further develop user growth, as they test out models that would bring in revenue going forward.

It did submit data from its herpes blood test to the FDA (which approved it), but a former Theranos employee cited by the Journal said that, at the end of 2014, the company only used its technology for 15 blood tests out of at least 225.

Traditional lab companies like Quest have also started talking about using blood tests for a personalized medicine approach to the early detection of diseases.

Although psychological tests have long been dismissed by skeptics, many companies are using them — with great success — to match employees to jobs that they won't want to leave.

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, had said her company could accurately perform a wide range of tests using a only a few drops of blood.

Even as Piëch maneuvered, there's a sign that VW engineers were considering the use of software that would let the company cheat on its emissions testing, according to a recent article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which attributed the information to a preliminary report from VW's internal investigation.

But companies are now using psychometric tests in more management areas and on a wider range of job types than ever.

Another example is Austin, Texas - based software company Chaotic Moon, which has plans to use Oculus Rift to allow consumers to view and test - drive cars.

Facebook employees have already been using the site for some time, but «Facebook for Work» «is now being tested with companies as its launch approaches,» the FT reports.

But some people in the tech industry argue that jobs like this should go to open - source software, which is freely available to test and deploy, rather than proprietary commercial software from companies like Microsoft that could include back doors and potentially be used to influence results.

Rosen, who has used the essay - test method for four years, came up with the technique because she was struggling to identify people who were a good fit for her company, which produces crafts fairs and publishes two magazines.

Use personality tests and reflect back on the results often to pinpoint your roles within the company and then hire to fill in the gaps.

In a similar fashion, the Body Shop got skewered when a magazine article questioned its claims about animal testing, alleged that the company used petrochemicals in some of its «natural» products, and charged that its Trade Not Aid program accounted for less of its supplies than it had claimed.

The app is currently being tested at an unnamed Fortune 100 manufacturing company that is using it with a volunteer cross-section of its employees.

Last year's iPad Pro models using Apple's homemade A10X processor (which is based on designs from ARM Holding) outperformed the company's 13 ″ MacBook Pro laptops, which had Intel i7 chips, on some benchmark tests.

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

The company is demonstrating two new categories of vision tests at CES, both of which use video games and eye tracking technology.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

In addition to its Los Angeles area testing, the company is currently using VR in a Kansas office and Chicago.

Using a team of employees who have proved themselves sharp judges of talent, the company puts candidates through a day of interviews and tests.

Users of the service can connect their LinkedIn or Github profiles and take a short aptitude test, similar to the ones many companies already use for recruitment.

The company currently uses a lab test that takes a minimum of eight hours, and sometimes up to a day or two, to get a readout of what phage or phages will work best against a particular strain of bacteria.

For the best results, companies should use both sorts of tests or a single test that combines the two elements.

Amazon is not performing any test deliveries using its drones for attendees, nor is the company even flying them at the festival.

Apple (aapl) said California should revise how companies report self - driving system «disengagements» and said the state should change a proposal «that may restrict both the design and equipment that can be used in test vehicles to further develop autonomous technologies.»

Holmes did confirm that the company, only «as of a few weeks ago,» is using only one «finger prick» blood test commercially, but says that was her own decision, based on her desire to get FDA approval for its process.»

On the complicated end of the work - sample spectrum, Seymour Adler, the Aon Consulting psychologist, has created a four - hour online exercise called Leader, which Motorola and other companies use to test would - be executives.

She was pleased to see that Tri-anim had been using the testing company PSI to assess candidates for some positions.

One of the drones Amazon is displaying is apparently similar to the drone the company used in December for a drone delivery test in England.

Tesla also said California should not prohibit the sale of any non-self-driving vehicle that was previously used for autonomous vehicle testing, an issue that could affect the company because of company software.

Facebook's data - use policy says the Menlo Park, California, company can deploy user information for «internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.»

The first complaint accused the company of instructing employees to test patients» blood using Theranos» devices even though there was evidence of «major stability, precision, and accuracy» issues.

The gaming company Zynga split its analytics team into two to become more proactive about analytics; while one team does the conventional reporting, the other «tests hypotheses and creates models using statistical and analytical methods.»

Now, companies that make physical stuff are using these tests to determine what customers want and how best to get them to buy.

AWS, the pioneer which launched in 2006, won the hearts and wallets of developers at startups and small companies long ago, because a single developer could easily set up a test site on AWS using his credit card.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.

The first incident, according to The Journal, involved a blood test ordered in 2013 for a patient using the company's proprietary Edison lab machine.