Theranos, a medical testing company that uses proprietary technology to take and test patients' blood and other bodily fluids, is also a Silicon Valley sweetheart led by a young, charismatic founder who is also one of America's youngest female billionaires. Elizabeth Holmes, 31, promises her company is "pioneering a new paradigm in which lab testing is accessible and affordable for everyone." Exactly how Theranos does that is still a bit of a mystery. The company is estimated to be worth $9 billion.
That's in part because Theranos has, as one prominent scientist put it in a critical opinion piece that ran in JAMA in February "operated in stealth mode for more than a decade."
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