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Gene Doping: Genetically Engineered Athletes
securitas writes "With the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics about to begin, games officials are on the lookout for the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes who want to gain an edge over their competitors. Scientific American's H. Lee Sweeney reports on sports officials who are looking to the near future with fear, anticipating a new, undetectable kind of doping that threatens to transform the fundamental nature of sports: gene doping (single-page view). The technology uses new 'therapies that give patients a synthetic gene, which can last for years, producing high amounts of naturally occurring muscle-building chemicals. The chemicals are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts and are only generated locally in the muscle tissue .... so officials will have nothing to detect in a blood or urine test.'
The article from the July 2004 issue includes diagrams by Jen Christiansen on the importance of skeletal muscles that provide athletes' power and how gene doping works.
Is the future of competitive sports an elite cadre of genetically engineered athletes?"
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If only there was a +1, Pity...
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Just blanket the olympics in high levels of EM radiation and you'll spot the cyborgs easily. As a bonus, those /. spectators present will be protected via their tinfoil hats.
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Well, if it goes far enough, we may end up with leagues for "natural" and "enhanced" humans. We'll see. Once a football team fields a goalie the exact height and width of the goal, we may see some outcry.
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I wonder if they can do the same for IQ or concentration? This would be handy for the chess competitors... And for me... I could complete my world domination scheme... hmmmm...
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No, his job is to sit and count the money he made in the buyout of slashdot.
Let's just all settle down...
And use this technology to engineer me some hair.
Which is why I lost alot of repect for W when he mentioned doping at during one the State of the Union address.
Yeah, because his administration has been otherwise impeccable...
Seriously, the only dope problem this country has is the one in the White House.
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