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Gyros Protein Technologies Introduces PurePep Chorus Automated Peptide Synthesizer

September 5, 2019

Flexible, modular system, designed for 21CFR Part 11 compliance

Nanopores Make Portable Mass Spectrometer for Peptides a Reality

February 25, 2019

Nanopores have been developed that can be used to directly measure the mass of peptides

MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug

December 10, 2018

Altered peptides from a South American wasp’s venom can kill bacteria but are nontoxic to human cells

Boston College Team Reports Technology to Enable Precision Antibiotics

June 30, 2018

Chemically enhanced phage display proves capable of recognizing specific strains of bacterial pathogens

University of Kansas’s Schilly Named Inaugural Recipient of 2018 SLAS Visiting Graduate Researcher Program Grant

June 26, 2018

SLAS has selected Kelci Schilly, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kansas, as...

Your Brain Is Multitasking, Using a Hunger Peptide That Tells You When to Eat

June 4, 2018

It’s one of several jobs of the cerebral plumbing system, which uses its fluid in some surprising ways

Beef Peptides Block Bitter Tastes

May 17, 2018

Most people try to avoid bitter flavors because they find them unpleasant. But some healthful foods are bitter, as are some m...

Promise of New Antibiotics Lies with Shackling Tiny Toxic Tetherballs to Bacteria

January 11, 2018

Biologists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a method for rapidly screening hundreds of thousands of potent...

New Theory Addresses How Life on Earth Arose from the Primordial Muck

November 2, 2017

American and New Zealand researchers use experimental evidence to overturn widely-accepted theory on the dawn of life on Eart...

A New Ligand Extends the Half-Life of Peptide Drugs from Minutes to Days

July 17, 2017

The new ligand brings together the advantages of both fatty acids and peptides

Lab Quickly Learns to Synthesize New Class of Antibiotic Molecules Cleanly and Efficiently

June 1, 2017

Researchers develop a complete enzymatic platform for making ß-lactone peptides from simple starting materials

Advanced Informatics for Analyzing Biological Data

May 31, 2017

More accurate protein insights help researchers and pharmaceutical companies drive scientific breakthroughs

New Technology Offers Fast Peptide Synthesis

February 28, 2017

MIT researchers have designed a machine that can rapidly produce large quantities of customized peptides

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