why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laboratory virtualization helps solve the reproducibility crisis in scientific research
“The other important thing that is not necessarily obvious is this helps solve the reproducibility issue that we have in science.”
Assertion Partly supported
Typical biotech Series A rounds reached $20M to $40M in 2017
“Nowadays a biotech company might raise 20, 30, forty million dollars for a first round of financing, and we raised a tiny fraction of that”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emerald Cloud Lab captures all variables for push-button experiment reproducibility
“Every scientifically relevant variable is captured in lab automation and robotics. We have the fully detailed look at what your, what the world looked like when you ran that experiment. So therefore you can go back and get push button reproducibility because y…”
Assertion Supported
Emerald Cloud Lab lets scientists globally run experiments remotely in SF
“So we have an application, so scientists anywhere in the world can design an experiment as if they are standing in front of the instrument themselves, That experiment then runs at our essential facility in South San Francisco.”
Assertion Supported
Emerald Cloud Lab captures full environmental and maintenance metadata for experiments
“But it's not just the data that we send back for that particular experiment. It's all of the other meta and ancillary data around that. So things like For the instrument they ran it on, when was the last time we ran controls on that instrument to verify that i…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emerald Cloud Lab executes submitted experiment protocols within 48 hours
“So once you've done this a database succession number gets created, which is the number for this protocol. It gets sent to our queue, and then within 48 hours it will be running on one of our instruments.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Typical life science experiments involve 80 to 100 controllable variables
“For any experiment, there may, might be 80 or a hundred different possible variables that you could change.”