Performance drugs - a research field for the future!

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Artificial enhancement of athlete’s performance is moving into new territory: novel substances, genetic manipulation…To what point will the human body be able to deal with all of this? Will performance enhancing drugs become undetectable? Will we soon be seeing ‘genetically-modified athletes’?

Public debate (in French) with Johan Auwerx, Director of EPFL’s Laboratory of Integrated Systems Physiology, and Martial Saugy, Director of the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses. Watch the stream here.