The supply chain
The supply chain: 5 articles from Peptidesfact. Long-form reporting on peptide science.
How Peptide Manufacturing Moved East
The invention of solid-phase synthesis is told often, usually as a story about elegance. The industrialisation of it is almost never told at all — and it explains far more about what is on the market today.
The Cold Chain Nobody Built for Research
The world's first large temperature-controlled logistics network was assembled in the 1970s to get vaccines to villages with no electricity. Everything shipped cold since has been riding on rails laid for something else.
The Counterfeit Problem Is Older Than the Internet
Two centuries before anyone shipped a vial from a website, a German chemist in London opened a bottle of pickles and found copper. The history of fake medicine is the history of the instruments that could finally see it.
The Price of a Gram Over Sixty Years
In 1953 the cost of a peptide was quoted in careers. By the 2010s it was quoted in fractions of a currency unit per milligram. The story of how that happened is four step changes and one stubborn exception.
The Shortage Years
Between 2022 and 2025 the best-selling drugs in the world could not be made fast enough. The constraint was almost never the peptide — it was the machinery that puts a liquid into a device, and that turned out to be the hardest thing in the industry to buy.