peptides

(Newser) - Peptides have slipped out of the lab and into Instagram feeds and college mini-fridges. In a lengthy piece for New York Magazine , Ezra Marcus dives into how they became wellness culture's latest everything-fix. If you don't think you're familiar with peptides, you actually are: The P in...

(Newser) - The next Olympic doping scandal could be delivered right to your doorstep. A trove of so-called research chemicals known as peptides, many of them banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and some not approved for human use in the US, are available with the simple click of a button through...

(Newser) - Two women who received injections aimed at slowing the aging process at a Las Vegas conference this month ended up on ventilators in the hospital, reports ProPublica . Public health authorities are investigating what went wrong at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. The women—a 38-year-old from California and...