New skin-permeable polymer delivers insulin without needles
A breakthrough zwitterionic polymer slips through the skin’s toughest barriers, carrying insulin deep into tissue and normalizing blood…
Serum peptidomics profiling reveals fibrinogen alpha chain-derived peptides associated with clinical outcome in patients with heart failure | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Khan MS, Shahid I, Bennis A, Rakisheva A, Metra M, Butler J. Global epidemiology of heart failure. Nat…
LassoESM accelerates discovery of therapeutic peptides
In the hunt for new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases, lasso peptides prove to be a catch.…
Cyclic peptide nanotubes offer new route to overcome cancer drug resistance
A research team at CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) has unveiled an innovative molecular approach that…
New insights into how antimicrobial peptides kill bacterial cells
New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some…
Rare ABCA7 gene variants linked to Alzheimer’s risk
A new study from MIT neuroscientists reveals how rare variants of a gene called ABCA7 may contribute to…
Generative AI creates life-saving antibiotics from scratch
What if generative AI could design life-saving antibiotics, not just art and text? In a new Cell Biomaterials…
Scientists uncover ‘missing link’ in life’s origin chemistry
For decades, scientists have chased a mystery about how proteins’ building blocks first hooked up with RNA, the…