Tom Bassindale, Sheffield Hallam University First published in The Conversation Chelsea Football Club revealed today that one of their players, Mykhailo Mudryk, has tested positive for a banned substance in a routine drug test. The 23-year-old Ukranian winger said he has not knowingly taken any performance-enhancing drugs. It has been…
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How do we know if testosterone is ‘non-endogenous’?
Yesterday we discovered that Paul Pogba, the Juventus midfielder was provisionally suspended after drugs test found “non-endogenous testosterone metabolites” in a urine sample. The sample was collected on 20th August after Pogba was an unused substitute in a game in Italy. Pogba can face a ban of four years if…
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What is your idea that got away?
The One That Got Away This is another of my ‘BitRot’ inspired doodles from the summer, transferred from a google note into this blog piece. I did actually voice type it on google, maybe I should have just recorded it as an audio file. Another time. In the book Bit…
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Cognitive bias in Forensic Science
Forensic evidence needs to be considered impartially and without prejudice. Recently cognitive bias has become somewhat a buzzword in FS circles… Recently I read a slightly tongue in cheek tweet from an attendee at a Forensic Science conference along the lines of “you’re no-one if you don’t mention cognitive bias…
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Forensic Horizons – research conference 2013
One year ago I attended a Forensic Science Society meeting about research and wrote the post ‘Forensic Science Research – What Research?‘. That has been one of my most read pages and had many comments here and on Twitter. One year on – I went to the Forensic…
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Sarin in Syria – the UN evidence
After much speculation as to whether chemical weapons had been used in Syria, last week the UN issued a report from their inspectors. They reported solid scientific evidence of detection of chemical agents. What were the conclusions? On the basis of the evidence obtained during our investigation of the Ghouta incident…chemical…
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AICAR – the get fit without exercise drug
Part three of the new doping mini series – this time AICAR. A drug to help lose weight, gain muscle and get fit even without exercise? This week I will take a look at AICAR… AICAR – full name aminoimidazole carboxamide riboside (also with the drug name acadesine) is a drug under development…
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SARMS – another class of new doping compounds
Cycling has again thrown itself into the spotlight for the wrong reason, doping. A selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) called ostarine has been detected in the urine from a cyclist, so what are these SARMS? In the first of a series of posts I will be looking at…
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Sarin – a chemical weapon used in Syria?
Today it was announced that samples taken from Syrian civilians had been tested in the UK for the presence of chemical weapons. Sarin was detected – what is it and how did they test for it? Sarin is a nerve gas, one of the ‘G-series’ (also known as GB)…
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Awaiting the results of toxicology testing…
‘Awaiting the results of toxicology testing’. A frequently heard addition to a news report on a suspicious death. Thanks for coming to WeAreForensic – be sure to follow on Facebook to keep up with the latest. Today I heard that sentence in relation to Boris Berezovski, the…