That just flies in the face of what happens with a normal peptide bond, which has a half-life of only 500 years," says Ron Raines, the Firmenich Professor of Chemistry at MIT. Raines is the senior ...

We discovered a chemical interaction in collagen that protects its peptide bonds from attack and cleavage,” Ron Raines, the Firmenich Professor of Chemistry at MIT, explained to Interesting ...

Professor Ronald Raines A protein is a string of amino acids that folds into a three-dimensional structure. Proteins perform the molecular functions that are necessary for life. These functions ...