This column features short items about sport research in progress or in print, highlights of recent or upcoming conferences, hot topics on mailing lists, and anything else of interest to the sport-science community.
Content can range from ground-breaking to gossipy.
Items will be edited and bounced back to you for approval. Sure, but until this year, no-one knew what those genes were. Now one has been discovered. A group working in London knew that ACE is active in muscle tissue, where it regulates blood flow, so they figured it might have a role in endurance performance. The athletes they chose were elite mountaineers who could ascend above 7000 m without oxygen.