[kstrauser]

According to an article in Nature[1]:

> Holmes described the miniLab as “the most important thing humanity has ever built”. But at best, the lab could do immunoassays using microfluidics. The tiny blood sample had to be diluted extensively (for which there are no reference standards or precedents), leading to artefacts and spurious results.

That (and other reports) sound like they diluted way more than usual.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05149-2

[2YwaZHXV]

While it is published on their site, it appears to really just be a summary of the book by Carreyrou? And I have yet to see anyone actually publish any of the dilution ratios and compare that to any existing process, so it seems like an easy-but-easily-incorrect leap to conclude that it is "way more than usual".