George Mason University researchers Lance Liotta, left, and Emanuel “Chip” Petricoin used nanoparticles to develop a urine test for human growth hormone. Anti-Doping Agency has agreed to help fund a Virginia-based company’s effort to gain acceptance in the anti-doping community for a urine test for human growth hormone, the entities will announce Friday. Ceres Nanosciences, which licensed the screening process developed by two George Mason University professors, will receive $65,000 to conduct a six-month study of whether the test can be reliably repeated on dozens of samples. The George Mason researchers, Emanuel “Chip” Petricoin and Lance Liotta, will oversee the study, which is a crucial step because of the large scale on which the test would be used with athletes. Petricoin and Liotta, who are on Ceres’ scientific advisory board, created a process that use nanoparticles — objects about one-tenth the size of a red blood cell — to latch on to HGH and make the hormone detectable by existing equipment. read more
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