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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Sports Doping
A Spanish cyclist, Maria Isabel Moreno, became the first person at the Beijing Olympics to test positive for a banned substance. It's cycling, so no shocker that the banned substance was Epo. No word on whether it is the new...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:01 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Sports Doping
Carlos Sastre won the Tour de France yesterday, but the whole race has been marred by incidents of sports doping. First, Riccardo Ricco was caught using a form of Epo called CERA. Now another biker named Dmitriy Fofonov tested positive...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:14 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Sports Doping
People have been asking me about Riccardo Ricco, the Italian cyclist who was thrown out of the Tour de France for testing positive for the hormone erythropoietin (Epo), so I want to do a little Q&A about Epo detection and...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:56 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Sports Doping
After the whole Floyd Landis thing, I wrote a long post about the science of detecting steroid abuse. The primary test uses something called the T/E ratio to determine whether the athlete has injected steroids. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:25 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Sports Doping
As some of you may have noticed, I have been keeping up with the science of Floyd Landis's failed drug test in a rather long post here. In the post, I mentioned that there is another test besides the Testosterone...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:50 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Sports Doping
Floyd Landis, most recent winner of the Tour de France, has tested positive for testosterone use:...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:39 PM • 40 Comments •
