Advanced Biologics

Adalank comes from chemists altering Selank in the lab; Selank itself is a short manmade peptide built originally from tuftsin, a natural peptide involved in immune signalling.

Adamax is a lab-built variant of Semax, a peptide studied in Russia for decades for its effects on memory and brain protection.

AHK-Cu is a copper complex made in the lab, joining three linked amino acids to a single copper ion; it sits close to a natural molecule called GHK-Cu, differing from it by only one building block.

Cibinetide, the other name for Ara-290, is a synthetic peptide designed from a segment of erythropoietin, the natural driver behind the body's production of red blood cells; scientists changed it so that it flips on a different pathway instead, one linked to repairing tissue.

Made in the lab, BPC-157 is built from a chain of fifteen amino acids and is based on a protective protein that occurs naturally in stomach juice.

Bromantane is a small synthetic molecule developed in Russia in the 1980s to help sustain physical performance under stress, such as heat or fatigue.

Cardiogen came out of a Russian research program that studies short peptides the group calls bioregulators; it is built in the lab from a chain of just four amino acids.

Cartalax was built in a lab from a short chain of three linked amino acids; researchers first spotted this sequence in kidney tissue, and the same three-part pattern also turns up inside a natural collagen protein that helps make up cartilage.

Made from pig brain tissue and standardized batch to batch, Cerebrolysin is a mixture of small peptide fragments and free amino acids, studied for its possible role in protecting nerves and supporting their growth.

Chemists built CJC-1295 with DAC by altering growth hormone-releasing hormone, the body's own chemical cue that prompts the pituitary gland to put out growth hormone, so that it would act for much longer.

Mod GRF 1-29 is another name for CJC-1295 without DAC, a modified fragment of growth hormone-releasing hormone.

Cyclic glycine-proline, or cGP, is a tiny peptide built from only two amino acids joined into a closed ring, and the human body already makes it on its own.

Dihexa is a small laboratory-made compound that grew out of research on angiotensin IV, a fragment tied to blood-pressure regulation.

DSIP, the short name for Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide, is built from nine linked amino acids; researchers first isolated it and worked out its structure from rabbit brain tissue in 1977.

Follistatin 344 is a protein the body produces naturally, and its job is to hold back two growth-limiting signals, myostatin and a related one called activin A, both of which act as brakes on muscle growth.

Three amino acids linked to a single copper ion form GHK-Cu, a compound already present in blood, saliva, and skin throughout the body.

GHRP-6, a laboratory-made chain of six amino acids, dates back to the 1980s, when it was among the earliest compounds built to prompt the body into releasing more of its own growth hormone.

HCG is a hormone the placenta produces naturally during pregnancy, and a pharmaceutical version manufactured from purified urine or through recombinant technology is approved for several specific reproductive-health uses.

Hexarelin, also called Examorelin, is a laboratory-made six-amino-acid peptide developed from an earlier growth-hormone-releasing compound.

HGH, known by its pharmaceutical name somatropin, matches the hormone that the pituitary gland makes on its own; modern supplies are grown using recombinant technology so the resulting molecule is chemically identical to what the body produces naturally.

IGF-1 LR3 is a laboratory-modified version of insulin-like growth factor-1, a growth factor the body already makes.

Built from five amino acids, the basic building blocks of proteins, Ipamorelin is a small peptide made in a laboratory.

Kisspeptin is a family of natural signaling molecules made from the KISS1 gene, best known for switching on the brain cells that start the reproductive hormone system.

KPV is a very small, lab made peptide with only three amino acids to its name, snipped off the tail end of a bigger hormone the body makes naturally, alpha-MSH.

LL-37 stands alone as the single antimicrobial peptide that the body produces internally, part of a peptide family called cathelicidins, natural germ-fighting molecules.

Melanotan I, also known by its approved name afamelanotide, is a laboratory-built copy of a hormone the pituitary gland makes naturally; it mainly turns on one type of skin-cell receptor tied to melanin production, the pigment that gives skin its color.

A university research lab first built Melanotan II, a lab made analog of the natural hormone alpha-MSH, as a way to darken skin without sun exposure.

MK-677, also called Ibutamoren, is built as a single, compact molecule rather than a strung-together sequence of amino acids, which is why researchers do not classify it as a peptide even though it works on a related hormone system.

NA Semax Amidate is a chemically modified version of Semax, a nootropic, meaning thinking-focused, peptide first developed in Russia from a fragment of a natural pituitary hormone.

Also known as Noopept, omberacetam is a small, lab made compound built from two amino-acid-like units.

Ovagen is a lab-made chain of three amino acids, sometimes called EDL after the initials of its building blocks.

Oxytocin is a short chain of nine amino acids that the brain makes on its own, released from a gland at the base of the brain called the pituitary.

P21, sometimes written P021, strings together four amino acids taken from a small active piece of a natural nerve-cell survival protein called ciliary neurotrophic factor, or CNTF, and made in a lab.

PE-22-28, also called Mini-Spadin, is made in a lab from just seven amino acids, a short stretch lifted out of a larger peptide called Spadin.

Mechano growth factor is a natural muscle-repair signal, itself a variant of a protein called IGF-1 that muscle tissue produces after mechanical stress or injury; PEG-MGF is a chemically altered copy of that signal.

Sometimes called EDR after its three building-block amino acids, Pinealon is made in a lab and comes out of a Russian research effort into short peptides known as bioregulators.

Designed at a US medical school, PNC-27 is a peptide of 32 amino acids built in a lab by joining two separate pieces: a fragment of a tumor-suppressor protein called p53 and a second piece that helps the whole chain cross into a cell.

Prostamax, sometimes called KEDP after its building blocks, strings together four amino acids in a lab and comes from the same Russian bioregulator research program that produced several other short peptides aimed at specific organs.

PT-141, known by its chemical name bremelanotide, is a lab-made peptide that switches on a family of brain receptors called melanocortin receptors rather than acting on blood vessels the way older sexual-function medicines do.

Made in a lab from seven amino acids, Selank takes tuftsin, a peptide that the body's immune system makes on its own, as its starting template, and was developed by researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

ACTH is a hormone the body produces naturally, and a small piece of it forms the seven-amino-acid backbone of Semax, assembled in a lab.

Growth hormone-releasing hormone, or GHRH, is the natural cue the body sends to prompt the pituitary gland into releasing growth hormone, and Sermorelin, built in a lab from 29 amino acids, copies the working part of that signal.

SNAP-8 is a lab-made chain of eight amino acids, the small building blocks proteins are made from, designed to copy part of a nerve-signaling protein called SNAP-25.

Copied from one small section of a larger, naturally occurring protein called thymosin beta-4, TB-500 strings together just seven amino acids in a lab-made chain.

Testagen is a very short, lab-made peptide made of just four amino acids, developed by a Russian research group studying so-called bioregulators, short peptides proposed to act on gene activity inside specific organs.

Thymalin is a mixture of short protein fragments that Russian researchers pulled from calf thymus tissue in the 1970s; Russia has listed it as a registered pharmaceutical there since the early 1980s.

The thymus gland naturally makes a hormone that Thymosin Alpha 1 matches exactly, amino acid for amino acid across all 28, though the version used in research and medicine is made in a lab.

The body already produces Thymosin Beta-4 on its own, a peptide built from 43 amino acids, and it is the parent molecule that the shorter research compound TB-500 was derived from.

Thymulin is a very small natural hormone, just nine amino acids long, made only by cells lining the thymus gland and first described by researchers in 1977.

TRT stands for testosterone replacement therapy, an approved medical treatment category rather than a single research compound.

VIP, short for vasoactive intestinal peptide, is a signal built from 28 amino acids that arises naturally in the body, one that nerve cells throughout the body use to communicate.