 Friend recently told me that when Theranos first hit the news as a darling startup, his MIT Microfluidics PhD friends went to see what the novel science was about. Naturally they read her paper and ... They couldn&#x27;t find anything new&#x2F;special in the paper and were left scratching their heads.<p>Maybe VC stronger connections with scientists, not just technologies when doing due diligence?<p>By the way this is a non sequitur but I find it poetically ironic that Theranos HQ is located on Page Mill Road where WSJ&#x27;s Silicon Valley branch used to be located back in the day.