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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When researchers found a way to bioengineer a version of the human hormone erythropoeitin (EPO), which acts as the body's trigger to create more red blood cells, it didn't take long for athletes with perfectly normal red-blood-cell counts to exploit the technology. French cyclists were caught using EPO in the 1998 Tour de France; Olympic officials began testing athletes at the Sydney Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Help The Dopers | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...European Patent Office (EPO) upheld an amended form of a Harvard University patent on a mouse genetically modified to develop cancer earlier this week. The decision, which limits the patent to mice only, ends a legal battle with environmental groups who had expressed concerns about animal cruelty...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Mouse Patent Upheld by Office | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...group would have liked to see the EPO discontinue its practice of issuing patents for mammals, Greenpeace spokesperson Christoph Then wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Mouse Patent Upheld by Office | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

Though the patent office recognized the ethical and animal cruelty concerns surrounding its decision, the EPO also pointed to the potential medical uses of the patent as a factor in its ruling...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Mouse Patent Upheld by Office | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...this steroid story. "Most of the drugs of abuse came to the marketplace as great advances in medicine," says Dr. Gary Wadler, a New York University professor of medicine and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Jocks may even have been among the first users of the hormone EPO, which some athletes have been taking to improve endurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Takes A Hit | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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