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A research team has developed a high-throughput multiplexed gene and cell doping analysis (HiMDA) based on gene scissors ...
Doping prevention training video. Image = Ministry of Food and Drug Safety YouTube Amid recent known cases of illegal drug ...
Gene-based drugs such as insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and erythropoietin (EPO), which can maximize strength and endurance, are likely to be abused by athletes in some sports as a means of ...
BBC Sport explains what it means, why it has become a hot topic, what the types of doping are and what is being done to tackle it.
October 2025 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would like to remind stakeholders to register for the Agency’s sixth World ...
Thirty plus years of studying, writing and talking about sports doping make him uniquely qualified to offer the following bleak answer. HOBERMAN: Not in our lifetimes, it will not end.
Realizing the inevitability of this new form of doping posing a risk to sports, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an international agency that monitors sports doping, added gene doping to the list ...
Donati is a lone voice in the stadium. Sport is losing the battle against doping. Consider what was regarded as the greatest victory over doping, the police raids on the 1998 Tour de France.
Houlihan adds that a big problem for anti-doping efforts is the financial challenge. "The estimated global value of the sports industry is somewhere between $350-450 billion.
While Bach represents pessimism about the anti-doping effort, Tygart said he can imagine a day when doping and the use of performance-enhancing drugs have been eradicated from sports.
The use of doping has spread from elite sports to include recreational sport and the growing “fitness movement”. It is now being practiced particularly by young and early middle aged people ...