New method is a thousand times more sensitive to performance-enhancing drugs
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
While the world's best athletes competed during last month's winter Olympics, doctors and scientists were waging a different battle behind the scenes to make sure no one had an unfair advantage from banned performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Now, for the first time, researchers have unveiled a new weapon—a test for doping compounds that is a thousand times more sensitive than those used today.