Rex F. May

As an aside, there is speculation that this Olympics was the last one where no athlete was deliberately genetically enhanced eg

"In separate experiments over the past couple of years at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, and University College Medical School in London, as well as the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center in Sweden, researchers have tested muscle-building vaccines based on engineered genes. Injected into mice, these vaccines have boosted muscle mbutt in the animals legs by 15 to 27%. Amazingly, these increases were measurable in only a month or so and did not require any exercise at all! Many muscle researchers believe that the first human trials will occur within the next couple of years. This could also be a major breakthrough for the treatment of a host of degenerative muscle diseases, including the various forms of muscular dystrophy.

On the down side, it takes little imagination to see the possibilities for abuse of the vaccines by healthy young athletes in power sports such as football, weight lifting, sprinting and short-distance swimming. Compared with anabolic steroids, a vaccine based on an engineered gene would offer some major advantages. It would need to be administered only one time, rather than periodically, and it would be essentially undetectable in the body. "

FFF Dirk

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