On Oct. 22, 2026, Gilead Sciences announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an…
On Oct. 15, 2026, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week submitted a peptide “interim access policy”…
On Sept. 30, 2026, a study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, published recently in Endocrinology, reveals a…
On May 6, 2026, a group of international researchers announced they had discovered 1,700 new proteins. The research…
On Apr. 26, 2024, engineers at Washington University in St. Louis announced a new imaging technique that give…
On Jul. 29, 2020, Constant Therapeutics announced that its peptide drug TXA127, a pharmaceutical formulation of the natural…
On Nov. 9, 2017, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) announced that Jingwei Xie, Ph.D, a biomedical engineer,…
In Jan. 1922, James Bertram Collip produced the first insulin for humans. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
In May 1986, the vaccine Recombivax HB, which protects against hepatitis B infection, was approved for marketing in…
In 1984, Robert Bruce Merrifield, a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (Ph.D. 1949) was…
On Oct. 28, 1982, after only 5 months of review, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved…
In 1980, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert for “for…
On Sept. 6, 1978, Genentech, the most successful of the new biotech start-up companies, announced that scientists at…
In 1950, in Room 64 of the Banting Institute at the University of Toronto, Drs. Wilfred Bigelow and…
In 1923, Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. J. MacLeod win the Nobel Prize for their work isolating insulin.
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best who extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas’ of dogs and…
On Sept. 22, 1902, Emil Fischer introduced the name peptides (from pepsis = digestion or peptones = digestion…