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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...