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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it's a polypeptide with two unnatural aminoacids, this aint rocket surgery. doses are in low miligram range, so still rather on the pricey side

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Egg of Columbus does spring to mind, reading your comment.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

one of these aminoacids has a rather fancy linker attached to another two aminoacids, getting this to work was probably the hardest part of development of this compound. once you have structure it's a solved problem, esp with peptide coupling chemistry, it can be literally printed on solid substrate residue by residue (humans make it cheaper, greener and on larger scale tho)