[srunni]

> It would also be a huge win for premature babies, some of which only have 2oz of blood in their entire system.

Take a look at Baebies, which is doing exactly this (neonatal screening): http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article28910089.ht...

The cofounders previously founded Advanced Liquid Logic, a diagnostics company using microfluidics technology developed in a Duke research lab that was subsequently sold to Illumina for $96M in 2013. Baebies is now licensing that technology from Illumina.

Unlike Theranos, their work has been published in peer-reviewed journals. For example, here's a publication from 2004: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2004/lc/b40334...