Gene Doping
How will Gene Doping effect the sports industry?
Gene Doping is a different type of gene therapy that has caused a lot of controversy in the past 6-7 years due to the capability of what this method of doping could do. Gene doping therapy was started at Harvard in 1999 and was specifically used to get a substantial rise in the performance of athletes. This is done by genetically modifying cells to enhancing athletic performance. Gene therapy is done by using genes to help treat or stop diseases. This is dangerous because this can have effects such as replacing a mutated gene that creates disease with a healthy gene. Recently there has been genes found that affect the skeletal muscle size and metabolism which gives athletes the potential to be abused for gain in performance.
Gene Therapy is a procedure that uses genes to prevent and treat various diseases and disorders. This is done by adding new genes to a patient’s cells or replacing missing cells or cells that aren’t working correctly. But gene doping is an abused form of gene therapy which instead of injecting DNA to make …show more content…
Not only does gene doping have an impact on the fairness of competitive sport it can also be very dangerous. Recently the EPO gene was tested on monkeys to see if it would have an increase in oxygen intake but instead, the monkey's blood became extremely thick forcing researchers to bleed the monkeys preventing strokes and heart failure. There are many, many risks with gene doping and sometimes it’s good to think would it even be worth it? There has been no evidence that gene doping has been used in sports yet and some scientists even say that gene doping won’t give athletes the super human like advantages they expect because you can’t safely put enough of the EPO gene into a human body without it becoming potentially deadly, causing blood
Gene Doping is a different type of gene therapy that has caused a lot of controversy in the past 6-7 years due to the capability of what this method of doping could do. Gene doping therapy was started at Harvard in 1999 and was specifically used to get a substantial rise in the performance of athletes. This is done by genetically modifying cells to enhancing athletic performance. Gene therapy is done by using genes to help treat or stop diseases. This is dangerous because this can have effects such as replacing a mutated gene that creates disease with a healthy gene. Recently there has been genes found that affect the skeletal muscle size and metabolism which gives athletes the potential to be abused for gain in performance.
Gene Therapy is a procedure that uses genes to prevent and treat various diseases and disorders. This is done by adding new genes to a patient’s cells or replacing missing cells or cells that aren’t working correctly. But gene doping is an abused form of gene therapy which instead of injecting DNA to make …show more content…
Not only does gene doping have an impact on the fairness of competitive sport it can also be very dangerous. Recently the EPO gene was tested on monkeys to see if it would have an increase in oxygen intake but instead, the monkey's blood became extremely thick forcing researchers to bleed the monkeys preventing strokes and heart failure. There are many, many risks with gene doping and sometimes it’s good to think would it even be worth it? There has been no evidence that gene doping has been used in sports yet and some scientists even say that gene doping won’t give athletes the super human like advantages they expect because you can’t safely put enough of the EPO gene into a human body without it becoming potentially deadly, causing blood