A powerful and undetectable new kind of doping may be happening at the Olympics

February 20, 2014

(Business Insider) – “The world may be about to watch one of its last Olympic Games without genetically enhanced athletes,” wrote H. Lee Sweeney, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Time to cherish the old-fashioned athletes of Sochi? It might be too late. Sweeney actually penned that warning a decade ago, in a Scientific American article exploring a little-known practice called gene doping. In 2004, gene doping was not yet a real risk. But now? The technology has advanced, and authorities have reason to be concerned.