{"id":4541,"date":"2025-02-11T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:05:57","slug":"improving-steroid-detection-using-ion-mobility-mass-spectrometry-our-work-featured-by-partnership-for-clean-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/improving-steroid-detection-using-ion-mobility-mass-spectrometry-our-work-featured-by-partnership-for-clean-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Improving Steroid Detection Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry&#8221; &#8211; Our Work Featured by Partnership for Clean Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To gain an unfair advantage over competitors, some athletes may resort to sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs that are marketed as \u201cundetectable\u201d in drug tests. However, recent PCC-funded research may soon put the brakes on this behavior with the introduction of methods for anti-doping testing that can detect designer steroids that were previously very difficult or impossible to detect, as well as the development of a database that will help anti-doping laboratories identify novel theoretical steroids that athletes could try to use in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Christopher Chouinard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Clemson University, is using a technique called ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) to detect and differentiate similar steroid molecules to improve anti-doping analyses. This work is particularly important in an era where new designer drugs continue to be developed with the goal of evading detection by anti-doping tests and analysis procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To gain an unfair advantage over competitors, some athletes may resort to sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs that are marketed as \u201cundetectable\u201d in drug tests. However, recent PCC-funded research may soon put the brakes on this behavior with the introduction of methods for anti-doping testing that can detect designer steroids that were previously very difficult or impossible&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/imms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}