Is CRISPR a fear Against Sports?
Journal Title: Archives of Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
One of the most worrying applications of molecular technology in sport is the gene doping, which is an outgrowth of gene therapy. In gene therapy, the missing or out- functioned gene or gene fragment is replaced with the functioning one, by the help of transfectionable devices such as viruses. In gene doping, the interested region is mostly the genetic material for enhancing athletic capacity. World Anti- doping Agency defined gene doping as the “nontherapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic elements, or modulation of gene expression, having the capacity to enhance performance”. To date, different researchers have attempted to inject different types of genes to model organisms [1,2], but still these approaches are far from safeness in humans, even in medical area.
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Ulucan Korkut
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