THE GREY

Treasury Wants Biotechnology in Its Outbound Investment Net. The Deal Map Could Chang

A biotechnology deal can be a scientific collaboration, a financial investment, an access point to manufacturing expertise and, increasingly, a national-security question. The U.S....

Cambrex’s $120 Million Iowa Expansion Is a Bet on Peptide Supply, Not Just Weight-Loss Demand

One of the more revealing announcements in the peptide economy this week did not come from a weight-loss trial. It came from a construction...

A GLP-1 Nasal Spray Is Being Planned. First It Has to Get Peptides Through the Nose

An injection is not the only imaginable way to deliver a peptide medicine. It is, however, one of the most reliable ways to bypass...

India’s Peptide Boom Moves Upstream. Laurus Moves to Buy the Resin Business

Every boom has an overlooked supplier. Gold rushes need shovels; data centers need power transformers; peptide drugs need the chemistry that allows manufacturers to...

FDA Counted Retatrutide’s Amino Acids. A Billion-Dollar Classification Fight Remains

Retatrutide has been marketed in the public imagination as the next great obesity medicine. In a federal legal dispute, however, the argument turns on...

A Compounding Pharmacy Lost Its Antitrust Rehearing. The GLP-1 Market Definition Is the Story

Compounded GLP-1 medicines occupy an unusual position in the American drug market: familiar active ingredients, individualized legal exceptions and a commercial ecosystem that expanded...

Ginger’s 6-Gingerol Disturbed Amyloid Peptides in a Lab. The Solvent Did Something Too

A compound associated with ginger changed how Alzheimer's-linked peptides assembled in a laboratory experiment. That sounds like the beginning of a familiar natural-remedy headline. The more...

PATAS Entered Diabetes Patients. This Peptide Is Testing Fat-Cell Insulin Resistance, Not Appetite

Most new metabolic-drug headlines describe another way to reduce appetite, delay gastric emptying or produce a larger percentage of weight loss. A clinical-stage peptide...