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Article: Stem Cells: Next Type of Sports Doping?
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- AP Online
- Article date:
- September 7, 2006
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LONDON - For athletes, stem cells have much more than the potential to cure disease and save lives - they may be able to heal injuries, boost strength and endurance, and provide a lasting edge over the competition.
If it sounds like stem cells are next frontier for doping in sports, it's because they very well may be.
"There's a spin-off technology from stem cells that could produce super-athletes," said Paul Griffiths, managing director of CryoGenesis International, which stores umbilical cord blood in its bank for potential later therapeutic use.
He believes that injecting stem cells into healthy muscles might increase their size and even restore them to their youthful capacity.
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