Repoxygen, a new drug still in clinical trials, increases levels of erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that supplies high amounts of oxygen to the muscles and increases endurance.

The trial of a German track coach accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes has included evidence indicating gene doping already might be taking place in sports.

Repoxygen is designed for gene therapy on patients with anemia. It can boost an athlete's performance by inducing the release of erythropoietin, or EPO, ...

Mr Parisotto believes some athletes may already be using genetically-based doping drugs, such as repoxygen, designed to switch on the body's EPO gene in response to low oxygen levels.

Repoxygen, as it was known, was intended to insert a gene that would increase endurance by boosting production of red blood cells. By 2006 Springstein was on trial for giving illegal substances ...

Berlin - The trial of a German track coach accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs has uncovered evidence indicating that gene doping may already be a reality in sport. E-mails seized in the ...

BERLIN (AP) – The trial of a German track coach accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes has included evidence indicating gene doping already might be taking place in sports ...

Repoxygen never made it out of the lab, and Springstein doesn’t seem to have obtained any. Instead, he eventually received a 16-month suspended jail sentence for supplying doping products to a ...

Gene research firm Oxford BioMedica is trialling a new product designed to tackle anaemia. Preclinical data presented by the firm's principal scientist, Dr Katie Binley, to the American Society ...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are confident of countering the threat of genetic doping at the Turin Olympics with president Dick Pound revealing genetic tests could be introduced in the near ...

Olympic athletes would now be able to genetically enhance their muscles to be faster and stronger, if they are not already - all thanks to the revolutionary 'gene doping'. Gene doping makes use of ...