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25 research guides written in house, plus a reconstitution calculator. Everything here is written for laboratory research use, with primary literature cited and nothing dressed up as advice.
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The methodology that applies whatever the compound is. Most of what we get asked is answered somewhere in this group.
How to Reconstitute Research Peptides: A Laboratory GuideHow to reconstitute peptides step by step: choosing a solvent, the laboratory procedure, working out concentration, storage, and the common mistakes.Peptide Concentration Calculation After ReconstitutionPeptide concentration calculation after reconstitution: mass over volume, converting to micrograms, U-100 syringe units and the errors to avoid.Peptide Solubility: Why a Vial Refuses to DissolvePeptide solubility explained: how net charge and hydrophobicity predict the right solvent, why vials go cloudy, and how to rescue a failed one.Peptide Molecular Weight, Moles and Net Peptide ContentPeptide molecular weight explained: converting mass to moles, why equal-mass comparisons mislead, and what net peptide content means on a COA.Peptide Storage and Stability: What Actually Degrades, and WhenPeptide storage explained: deamidation, oxidation, hydrolysis, disulfide scrambling and aggregation, and how to read your sequence and store accordingly.Lyophilized Peptide Cake: Why Your Vial Looks WrongA lyophilized peptide can arrive as a cake, a puck, a film or almost nothing visible. What each appearance means, and when it actually signals a problem.Bacteriostatic Water: What the Benzyl Alcohol DoesBacteriostatic water is water plus 0.9% benzyl alcohol. What the preservative does, why the label warns against neonates, and when sterile water is better.How to Read a Peptide COA: What Each Line MeansA peptide COA is four or five lines and a chromatogram. What purity, quantity and the LAL endotoxin result actually mean, and what the document cannot tell you.
Metabolic and incretin research
Single, dual and triple receptor agonists, and why those are different designs rather than escalating strengths.
GLP-1, GIP and Glucagon: How Single, Dual and Triple Agonists DifferTriple agonist peptide pharmacology explained: how receptor targeting differs across single, dual and triple agonists of GLP-1, GIP and glucagon.Tesamorelin and Ipamorelin: Two Receptors, One AxisTesamorelin ipamorelin explained: a GHRH analogue and a ghrelin-receptor agonist, the two receptors involved, and what pairing them actually tests.IGF-1 Research: The Binding Proteins DecideIGF-1 research explained: why 98% is bound to IGFBPs, how IGF-1R overlaps the insulin receptor, and why modified analogues exist at all.5-Amino-1MQ: The NNMT Inhibitor Is Not a Peptide5-Amino-1MQ is a small-molecule NNMT inhibitor, not a peptide. What NNMT does to nicotinamide, NAD+ and SAM, and what the mouse data measured.
Mitochondrial and redox research
Three compounds grouped by organelle that work by entirely different means, plus the tripeptide whose unusual bond is the whole trick.
NAD+, MOTS-c and SS-31: Three Different Mitochondrial StoriesMitochondrial peptides compared: NAD+, MOTS-c and SS-31, what each one actually targets, why they are not interchangeable, and how to handle them.SS-31 and Cardiolipin: Targeting a Lipid, Not a ReceptorSS-31 cardiolipin explained: why a tetrapeptide binds a structural lipid, how it enters mitochondria without a membrane potential, and what that tests.Glutathione: Why the Gamma Bond Is the Whole TrickGlutathione for laboratory research: the gamma-glutamyl bond, the GSH and GSSG redox couple, oral bioavailability limits and handling.
Repair, structure and copper chemistry
Where a fragment is not the protein it came from, and where the metal is part of the molecule rather than an additive.
BPC-157 Research Guide: Mechanisms, Evidence and HandlingBPC-157 research explained: sequence and origin, angiogenesis and nitric oxide mechanisms, an honest look at the evidence, and handling. Research use only.TB-500 and Thymosin β4: The Fragment Is Not the ProteinThymosin beta-4 is a 43-residue actin-sequestering protein; TB-500 is its acetylated 17-23 fragment. Structure, mechanism and what does not transfer.GHK-Cu: The Copper Is Not an AdditiveGHK-Cu is a copper(II) coordination complex, not peptide plus copper. Chelators, pH, the blue colour as a check, and how to read the GHK literature.Klow: What Is Actually in the Four-Peptide BlendKlow peptide blend explained: GHK-Cu, BPC-157, TB-500 and KPV, the mass split from the certificate of analysis, and why it is not four equal parts.
Neuro and signalling research
Receptor selectivity, upstream triggers, and one compound that still has no identified receptor at all.
Semax and Selank: Same Lab, Same Trick, Two Different TargetsSemax vs Selank compared: ACTH and tuftsin origins, the shared Pro-Gly-Pro tail, what each one actually targets, and how to handle both in the laboratory.Melanotan I, Melanotan II and PT-141: Receptor Selectivity Is the Whole StoryMelanotan 2 vs PT-141, with Melanotan I alongside: structure, melanocortin receptor selectivity, MC1R against MC4R, and what one functional group changes.Kisspeptin: A Metastasis Suppressor That Turned Out to Run PubertyKisspeptin was discovered as a metastasis suppressor before its reproductive role. KISS1R/GPR54 pharmacology, kisspeptin-10, KNDy neurons and lab handling.DSIP Peptide: What the Sleep Research Actually ShowsDSIP peptide research: the 1978 nonapeptide sequence, a fifteen-minute half-life, no identified receptor, and why the sleep evidence stays mixed.
More guides
Ipamorelin: The First Selective GH SecretagogueIpamorelin releases growth hormone without raising cortisol. What the 1998 selectivity data and the human trials actually show, with sources.AOD-9604: What the Research Actually ShowsAOD-9604 has strong rodent data and a failed human trial. Here is what the hGH fragment 176-191 literature actually shows, with sources.
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