Blood doping is a problem in many endurance sports. You can either so that the athlete takes a hormone preparations, EPO, or by blood transfusion. This increases the amount of oxygen-carrying red blood cells and the ability to perform at peak increased for example, cyclists, runners and skiers.
But when the blood changing so is its molecular fingerprint different. A newly developed test from Pro Diagnostic Test in Umeå recognize these changes – even if it is the athlete’s own blood, which brought back.
– It has previously been attempted to measure the difference in the amount of white and red blood cells at different times, but it has never been tillräckligtför to prove blood doping. Our method breaks up proteins in the blood with a powerful laser. The fragments were measured and compared against a database that can identify different combination of thousands of proteins. The test provides a rash in the shape of ones or zeros, a one means that the person is doped, says Christer Malm, President Pro Test Diagnostics.
Pro Test Diagnostics has now received fresh capital from Fort Knox. The goal is to doping test to reach the market within three years.
– Now waiting for tests to verify that it works for different scenarios. We do not know how good test answers depending on diet, exercise or genetics. We also need to think hard about how samples are to be transported from the sample to the nearest lab and develop a software to analyze the samples, says Christer Malm.
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