• Question: What molecules did you make that no one else had made in the world?

    Asked by Dil to Laura on 19 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Laura Newton

      Laura Newton answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      Hey Dil!

      Sorry for the delay in getting back to you!

      I’ve been making a lot of new peptides, they are made of amino acids joined together like. There are 20 natural amino acids and lots of man-made ones so there’s almost an infinite different number of peptides that could be made. They all have different properties depending on the chemical groups of each amino acid.
      I’ve been putting them together in new ways that haven’t been done before to try and make a peptide that does exactly what I want it to.

      Thanks for your question!
      Laura 🙂

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  • Photo: vediacan

    vediacan commented on :

    Hi Dil!!

    Our research group has developed a bunch of “peptides” (these are tiny little protein molecules; composed from a string of amino acids as mentioned by Laura) that have anti-inflammatory properties.

    Best Wishes,

    Vedia