PED Experts, Rejoice!! New, Improved Drug Testing!!

Can't believe all the Google University biochemists/PED experts missed this one... HGH test would track use for up to two weeks A Virginia company claims to have a urine-based test for human growth hormone that could be used to drug test athletes two weeks after its use, rather than 48 hours or less. The company, Ceres Nanosciences, says the test eliminates the need for blood tests to detect HGH. Players' associations have pushed back on blood tests. Ceres says its test can be available within six months, through the World Anti-Doping Agency. The story was first reported by the Washington Business Journal. Current tests track HGH use only within the past 48 hours. The two-week test, and having it be urine-based, would theoretically make it harder for athletes to evade an HGH test. A WADA spokesman said the organization is encouraging Ceres to continue researching the test. No worldwide studies have been conducted. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3504036 ^ ESPN article from 2008. Seems Ceres has gone through all the necessary hurdles (worldwide baseline tests, clinical trials, funding etc) and the product is finally in the development stage. They were funded by USADA and developed a new technology known as nanotrap that can detect certain proteins at a much higher rate than normal for longer periods of time. The current blood tests for HGH are clearly ineffective as they A) supposedly can only detect HGH in a person's system for about 48 hrs after use. B) No one has ever failed an HGH blood test (with the exception of one in Europe that is contested, but no Olympic athlete has ever tested positive for HGH). Either no one uses HGH any more or, more likely, the current test is useless. This is bolstered by the fact that even USADA thought it necessary to fund a new test, pretty much admitting that the current procedure/protocol is flawed. That is no longer a problem with this new technology which can detect it for up to 2 weeks in an athlete's urine. "In our view, the results of our scientific study demonstrate the ability to measure HGH in urine using existing FDA approved assays coupled to Nanotrap enrichment" said Lance Liotta, M.D., Ph. D., codirector of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine at George Mason University, "We now are exploring the feasibility of measuring specific isoforms of HGH in urine using the Nanotrap technology, which has not been done before" he continued. "We plan to proceed methodically through this process with the highest degree of scientific rigor and peer-review". http://www.ceresnano.com/images/Press%20Release%204-13-10.pdf Link to Ceres' website: http://www.ceresnano.com/index.htm Everyone who is so worried about HGH not being able to be detected in urine (or blood for that matter) can now rest assured that anyone who partakes in HGH doping can be caught red-handed for up to 2 weeks after use with a urine test as soon as Ceres makes it commercially available. :boxing: