The secret to a bulletproof antidoping test?
February 25, 2014
(New York Times) – In the lab of Yannis Pitsiladis, a physiologist in Scotland, athletes spend their days injecting synthetic EPO, a popular performance-enhancing drug that tricks bone marrow into churning out more red blood cells, allowing athletes’ bodies to absorb more oxygen. Pitsiladis hasn’t gone rogue. He’s at the forefront of an effort to revolutionize the hunt for dopers in sports by scouring his subjects’ blood cells for a distinctive, long-lasting genetic “fingerprint†left by the drug.
