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Article: QLD: Synthetic growth hormone test ready for Sydney Olympics
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- February 8, 1999
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-1999
QLD: Synthetic growth hormone test ready for Sydney Olympics
BRISBANE, Feb 8 AAP - Two Queensland researchers have helped develop the first known
detection test for growth hormone abuse in athletes, and they say testing procedures could be
in place by the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Professor Ross Cuneo and research scientist Jennifer Wallace of the University of
Queensland were part of a $3 million research program by an international collaboration funded
by the International Olympic Committee and the European Union.
The researchers now claim they are able to detect illegal growth hormone doping from just
one drop of an athlete's blood.
In 1990, ...