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The Drug That Made Champions - and Grew Tumors in Mice
The Drug That Made Champions - and Grew Tumors in Mice
A single molecule could turn a human into an endurance machine while triggering rapid, multi-organ cancer in rodents; GW501516 was developed by a major pharmaceutical company, tested on human volunteers, and abandoned after animal studies showed tumors - so how did it become a black-market performance enhancer anyway?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the lab bench to elite sport, showing the compound's development, clinical testing, abandoned program, and later high-profile endurance studies - and we ask how a…
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