Anti-Doping Agency funds nano test for HGH

February 27, 2009: The US Anti-Doping Agency has awarded nanotech company Ceres Nanosciences LLLP $65,000 and research support for development of a urine test to detect human growth hormone, according to a Bloomberg report.

Ceres, in partnership with George Mason University, will try to prove that Ceres’s technology can detect HGH, a performance-enhancing drug that grows muscle and aids recovery after training. Currently, no urine test exists to detect HGH that would stand up in court, Ceres CEO Tom Dunlap told Bloomberg.

Major League Baseball banned HGH in 2005 but, like other professional sports, does not test for the substance.

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