Organic Chemistry/Proteins:. New Type of Painkiller from Sea Snails

摘要

Most painkillers-such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen-consist of relatively small molecules. But during the past few decades, scientists have found an entirely different family of painkillers made of long chain-like molecules called peptides. Peptides consist of a chain of amino acids, which are also the building blocks of proteins-molecules commonly found in meat, milk, eggs, and legumes.