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One of Life's Most Important Ingredients Could Have Formed in The Hearts of Comets

While details are understandably slim today, life on Earth is thought to have arisen about 4 billion years ago from a fateful blend of organic compounds popularly known as primordial soup. read more

Protein Structure

Within a protein, multiple amino acids are linked together by peptide bonds, thereby forming a long chain. Peptide bonds are formed by a biochemical reaction that extracts a water molecule as it ... read more

Peptide bond

A peptide bond is an amide type of covalent chemical bond linking two consecutive alpha-amino acids from C1 (carbon number one) of one alpha-amino acid and N2 (nitrogen number two) of another, along a ... read more

Peptide bonds revisited

In conclusion, we would like to emphasize two points: first, the importance of the cis conformation of peptide bonds in protein structures, especially if it is a Xaa–nonPro peptide bond ... read more

Peptides: Everything You Need To Know About Beauty's Biggest Buzzword

Peptides] should not be used with salicylic acid and alpha hydroxy acids such as glycolic acid as the acids may cause a breakdown of peptide bonds (in a process called hydrolysis), rendering the ... read more

Tau Toggling Peptides: One Seeds Fibrils; the Other Dismantles Them

The scientists found that while hairpin structures formed by the R1R3 peptide and S305L jR2R3 featured extensive intramolecular hydrogen bonds that kept the amyloidogenic PHF6 sequence buried in the ... read more

Drug delivery innovation: Multifunctional system based on switchable peptide-stabilized emulsions

A new study led by Prof. Meital Reches of the Hebrew University with Mr. Daniel Boas, a Ph.D. student in her group and team of collaborators, has pioneered a new drug delivery system centered on ... read more

Bicycle Therapeutics gets grant for high affinity peptide binders for thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP)

Discover the groundbreaking patent by Bicycle Therapeutics Plc for high-affinity TSLP binders, revolutionizing treatment for TSLP-mediated diseases. Explore the innovative peptide ligands and ... read more

Bethenny Frankel uses this 'hydrating, plumping, brightening' Vitamin C serum every day — it's now just $20

One shopper raved, "By far the best [Vitamin C serum] I’ve ever used. Leaves my skin so hydrated and smooth whether I use it during the day or at night. If I wake up with plump moisturized skin I know ... read more

Research work in the Paetzel lab

The Paetzel lab investigates the structure and mechanism of proteases and peptidases, a class of hydrolytic enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of specific peptide bonds within proteins. These enzymes ... read more