MIT's fast synthesis system could boost peptide-drug development

Peptide drugs are expected to become a $25 billion market by 2018, but current archaic manufacturing methods are too slow MIT chemists have devised a way to rapidly combine amino acids into protein fragments known as peptides for use in drugs Small protein fragments, also called peptides , are promising as drugs because they can be designed for ... (more)

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