Depending on your source of health news or the slant of your social media feed, you might be getting inundated these days with info about peptide therapy. This medical treatment involves using ...

Peptides are amino acid polymers. They are generally much smaller than proteins and don’t have sufficient activity on their own – they generally represent a small portion of a full protein.

That process led to the group discovering a lasso peptide that exhibited broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and was effective at killing both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogenic bacteria, along ...