Machine learning tool predicts the potential of peptides as immune activators
The immune system keeps T cells under control by regulating precisely when they can respond to a pathogen.
Peptides to target central components in the autophagy pathway
Autophagy, meaning “self-eating” in Greek, is a general metabolic mechanism adopted by nearly all the eukaryotic species, from the single cell yeast to humans.
What Is the Difference Between a Peptide and a Protein?
Proteins and peptides are fundamental components of cells that carry out important biological functions. Proteins give cells their shape, for example, and they respond to signals transmitted from the extracellular environment.
What is GHRP-2?
Growth hormone releasing peptide 2 or GHRP 2 is a synthetic analogue of GHRP 6. It is well-known for its ability to effectively improve and stimulate the production of human growth hormone.
Breakthrough for peptide medication
The „Holy Grail“ of peptide chemistry: New strategy makes peptide active agents available orally.
Rattlesnake venom extract helps strike back against superbugs
With bacteria becoming ever more resistant to our best antibiotics, scientists are searching high and low for new ones in nature.
Discovery of a new vehicle peptide opens up a drug delivery route
In the field of anticancer therapeutics, cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have gained prominence because of their cytotoxic and anticancer activity in drug-resistant cancer cells.
Proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and treat dental cavities
Researchers at the University of Washington have designed a convenient and natural product that uses proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and treat dental cavities.
How Peptides help to lose weight
The body prefers to use fat as fuel for activity. However, with constantly full sugar stores, it tends to use this before using the stored fat.
Life expectancy could be increased to 110
A team of scientists in St Petersburg has developed a new style of the drug from the organs of newborn calves which, they claim, slows down the human ageing process so radically that life expectancy could be increased to 110.