Fred Turner
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first heard Jul 2026
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And then we found a fascinating market in sepsis.
And so sepsis is a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people a year.
It's basically where you get bacteria in your bloodstream.
And what kills you is not actually the bacteria.
It's your own immune system.
So you're not supposed to have bacteria in your blood, right?
Your blood is supposed to be sterile.
And when bacteria get in there, your immune system kind of freaks out.
And it triggers this whole downstream cascade where your blood vessels start to leak, and all of your organs start failing, and it's basically really bad.
And that's what kills you, is your own immune reaction to the bacteria rather than the bacteria.
And so this is one of the leading causes of death in the US.
Often, if you're dying from something else,
you have serious cancer, it'll be sepsis that ultimately ends up being what kills you because you get more susceptible to it with other diseases.
And so it's leading cause of death, increasing mortality, it's incredibly expensive, outcomes are terrible.
And so we were working on basically a better testing technology where from the earliest date you could detect these bacteria and what antibiotic they are going to be susceptible to and treat people faster.
Because with sepsis, basically every hour that you don't treat somebody is about a 12% increase in mortality.
So you want to get the treatment as soon as possible.
No.
So this company died at the end of 2019.
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