The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is desperately seeking to enhance its historically disastrous performance in the cat-and-mouse game between anti-doping agencies and athletes who use performance enhancing drugs. WADA committed $6.6 million to fund forty research initiatives to improve their drug detection abilities including the next generation of performance enhancing techniques involving “plasmid vectors” and “RNA interference” to regulate gene expression … Read the rest of this entry »
“I have consulted some leading experts, who said the stem-cell therapy for enhancing athletes’ performance was technically impossible at present, and it is also prohibited by the Chinese government,” said Mao.
The ARD, a German-based television company, reported last week that a Chinese doctor offered stem-cell therapy to a reporter posing as an American swimming coach in return for 24,000 U.S. dollars.
Mao Qunan noted that ARD television provided no information that could be used to verify the authenticity of the story. The Chinese official left open the possibility that a Chinese doctor may have attempted to “scam” the reporter posing as a swim coach, but also questioned the motives of the documentary company by suggesting they could have fabricated the story to promote their own agenda. … Read the rest of this entry »
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