Re: Youngest self-made female billionaire
No. that would require additional sample .. and as it is … too many patients freaks out at “so many tubes of blood” being drawn. Also, multiple reads = multiple runs = not feasible when turn around needs to be fast … here too as it is … patients complain quite a bit about “wait times” often with no understanding of the process of their evaluation of a non-existent illness :halo: … but i digress and thats a whole another topic.
its also not feasible because hospital labs are already overwhelmed with large volumes to tests being run (partly due to over testing on the physicians end … but then that happens because everybody and their dog want a workup for everything and they want t NOW) , poor staffing and finite number of equipment.
one big advantage of micro assays is being able to automate very very large numbers of samples very efficiently and cost effectively … once this becomes mainstream and all biochemical bugs are ironed out … we can expect great precision. speed+precision=happy patients and doctors and another giant step towards instantaneous (or should I say milisecondanous) gratification.