The flow system is 10 to 100 times as fast as batch-based solid-phase peptide synthesis methods currently used, Pentelute says. If the Amidator worked nonstop for a year, it could create tens of ...

Here we report a fully automated, flow-based approach to solid-phase polypeptide synthesis, with amide bond formation in 7 seconds and total synthesis times of 40 seconds per amino acid residue.

Manufacturing small proteins known as peptides is usually very time-consuming, which has slowed development of new peptide drugs for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infections. To ...

His team examined how protein synthesis--the process that determines how organisms grow and how cells renew themselves--changes over the course of the daily day-night cycle.