Word: ashenden
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Enhancing oxygen delivery is a broad frontier. The process theoretically can be manipulated at many points. "It is inevitable that other pharmacological avenues to stimulate red-cell production will be explored--and exploited," says Dr. Michael Ashenden, project coordinator for a global blood-doping research consortium funded by WADA and USADA. "Putting in an EPO gene is only one way to get the same result...
...athletes tempted to cheat, a word of caution: advances in technology cut both ways. Ashenden's group is researching a powerful new tool able to precisely measure a person's metabolic profile. "Athletes who are doping are altering their metabolism, whether it's by taking a drug or inserting a gene," Ashenden says. "So if we can look at their metabolic profile and see it isn't normal, then that's evidence they have doped--even if we might not know what exactly they've done...