Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A consistent push toward animal rights in the West has made research on primates increasingly

fraught, yet monkeys hold valuable secrets.

And as countries such as China and Japan press ahead, there will be scientific and strategic

consequences.

And we take a look at a new translation of a lost book by Simone de Beauvoir, a celebrated

feminist philosopher.

It reveals just how much a childhood friendship shaped both our personal and our professional

life.

First up though.

Elizabeth Holmes once graced the covers of magazines such as Forbes, gave talks at tech-savvy

conferences like Ted, mixed with the political and Silicon Valley elite.

Now she's about to stand trial, as soon as a sufficiently balanced jury can be found.

Theronos, the startup she founded in 2003, claimed to revolutionize the process of blood

testing and in so doing to alter healthcare itself.

We've created these little tiny tubes which are designed to replace the big traditional

tubes and instead allow for all the testing to be done from a tiny drop from a finger.

She raised hundreds of millions of dollars to manufacture those tiny tubes and struck

deals to ship them to pharmacies across America.

By 2015 the company was valued at nine billion dollars and Ms. Holmes was a media darling.

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