{"id":51140,"date":"2026-11-12T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/meet-the-people-who-want-peptides-to-be-made-in-america\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:34:51","slug":"meet-the-people-who-want-peptides-to-be-made-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/meet-the-people-who-want-peptides-to-be-made-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the people who want peptides to be made in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/optimizer-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Optimizer<\/a><em>, a weekly newsletter sent from<\/em> Verge <em>senior reviewer<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/victoria-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Victoria Song<\/em><\/a> <em>that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they\u2019re going to change your life. We\u2019ll be taking a break next week and will be back on November 25th. Opt in for<\/em> Optimizer <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The SS Jeremiah O\u2019Brien is a World War II Liberty ship. The hulking vessel was built in 56 days. It made 11 trips to Normandy, France, to supply the Allied powers in the fight against German U-boats. Last week, it was the site of a black-tie peptide party thrown by a trio of Gen Z venture capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 150 people attended the event, where four types of peptide samples were provided to guests \u2014 no injections. One was a topical cream with GHK-Cu, while the other three were dissolvable sublingual strips from peptide startup Afterglow. GHK-Cu is a popular skincare ingredient, but it\u2019s unclear how well sublingual peptide strips work. The topic of the night wasn\u2019t just the state of peptides. The venue was a deliberate reference to American industrial prowess \u2014 and why the pharmaceutical supply chain ought to be centered in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/1032243\/peptides-american-manufacturing-maha\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they\u2019re going to change your life. We\u2019ll be taking a break next week and will be back on November 25th. Opt in for Optimizer here. The SS Jeremiah O\u2019Brien is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1483,1459,36,1717,327],"class_list":["post-51140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-column","tag-health","tag-mixtv","tag-optimizer","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}