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- Title
Drugs in sport: No dope.
- Authors
Knight, Jonathan
- Abstract
The article reports that scientist Don Catlin's laboratory has struck a major blow against drug abuse in athletics, by developing a test for a shadowy designer steroid. Drug testers and drug-using athletes have been locked in battle for more than three decades. Testers and dopers have been engaged in an arms race with the users of illicit drugs generally being perceived to have the upper hand. Catlin's group hit on the idea of using carbon isotope ratios to distinguish between natural testosterone and its laboratory-made counterpart. Once athletes became aware of the test in the late 1990's, many stopped using testosterone, Catlin says.
- Subjects
DOPING in sports; DRUGS of abuse; TESTOSTERONE; CATLIN, Don
- Publication
Nature, 2003, Vol 426, Issue 6963, p114
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/426114a