ea0025s9.4 | Doping: performance enhancing substances in sport and their detection | SFEBES2011
Friedmann Theodore
Advances in genetic technology are permitting application in at least two areas relevant to doping in Sport. The first is derived directly from successful development of the new form of medicine called gene therapy – the use of genes and genetic elements to treat human disease. This conceptually new area of Medicine was proposed initially almost 4 decades ago and has finally proven to be clinically successful in several life–threatening or debilitating diseases including...