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    Elizabeth Holmes is the CEO and founder of the multibillion dollar company, Theranos. Holmes is the youngest female billionaire and ranked number 1 in the world of America’s self made women. Elizabeth Holmes’ net worth is 4.5 billion dollars which makes her number three hundred and sixty on the list of billionaires. Elizabeth Holmes is a college dropout which makes it very extraordinary to think that she accomplished so much and how she got to where she is now. Elizabeth Holmes was born on February 3rd, 1984 in Washington D.C, where her father, Christian Holmes IV worked for the United States Agency for International Development and her mother worked on the staff of a congressional committee. Elizabeth Holmes comes from quite a family of successors. An ancestor of Holmes, Charles Fleischmann, was an entrepreneur who founded the Fleischmann Yeast Company. Another, Dr. Christian Holmes was a surgeon and the founder of a medical school, in Ohio. With a history of success like that; it is easy to see how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. She attended High school at St. John’s School in Houston and graduated in 2002. During high school and college she studied Mandarin. Elizabeth Holmes went to Stanford University for chemical engineering, and during her time there, filed her first patent for an advanced drugdelivery patch. She then dropped out of college; just before her sophomore year. While in college she started her own business, selling software to Chinese universities…

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    98.7% Syphilis (visual interpretation): sens. 94.7% speci. 100% Syphilis (electronic interpretation): sens. 94.7% speci. 99.7% The POC test performed similarly to reference studies, enhancing the potential use in clinical settings. Further studies using fingerprick samples are needed. Internal: enhanced by using an electronic reader and by repeating false results. External: Not representative of population. Tests performed by trained laboratory personnel. Kalou et al. To evaluate the…

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