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Peptide Science

The fundamentals: what peptides are, how they are made, how they behave in the body, and how they are studied.

What Are Peptides?

Peptides are short chains of amino acids. What separates a peptide from a protein, why the body uses them as signals, and why that makes them both useful drugs and difficult ones.

4 min read

Peptides vs Proteins

The peptide/protein boundary is a convention, not a chemical fact — but it has real consequences for how these molecules are made, dosed and regulated.

2 min read

What Does Half-Life Mean in Peptide Research?

Half-life is the single number that decides whether a peptide can be a once-weekly medicine or nothing at all. How it is measured, how it is engineered, and how it is misused in marketing.

2 min read

How Peptides Are Studied

The methods behind peptide research — receptor binding assays, animal injury models, pharmacokinetics — and what each one can and cannot establish.

3 min read

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