New Technology Offers fast Peptide synthesis
The world is progressing and it is progressing rapid and fast. To speed up the process of peptide synthesis MIT researchers have designed a new machine that can rapidly produce large quantities of custom peptides. Producing small proteins known as peptides is usually a very time-consuming process, which has sluggish the development of new peptide drugs for diseases like cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infection. The new tabletop machine designed by MIT researchers can form links between amino acids (building block of proteins) in about just 37 seconds, and it takes less than an hour to produce complete peptide molecules containing nearly 60 amino acids. “You can dial in whatever amino acids you want, and the machine starts printing off these peptides faster than any machine in the world,” says Bradley Pentelute, the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry at MIT. This technology, therefore, could help researchers quickly generate ne...