Muscle protein synthesis signaling cascades

“MIT chemists have devised a protocol to dramatically reduce the amount of time required to generate synthetic proteins. Their tabletop automated flow synthesis machine can string together hundreds of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, within hours. The researchers believe their new technology could speed up the manufacturing of on-demand therapies and the development of new drugs, and allow scientists to design artificial proteins by incorporating amino acids that don’t exist in cells.” Bruce Merrifield pioneered protein synthesis in the 1950s, and his machine for this process is now in the Smithsonian.    MORE

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