Research library
A sourced library on research peptides.
Compound overviews, guides and laboratory tools from Horizon Peptides. Compound pages link every source and say what kind of evidence they are reporting. No dosing, no health claims.
- Sources linked
- Evidence level stated
- Free to read
How it is written
Reported, not promised.
Sources you can open
References point to the PubMed record or the original source, so a statement can be checked against what was published.
Evidence level stated
Cell work, animal work and human studies are labelled as what they are, and an animal finding is never written up as a human one.
No dosing, no promises
Pages report what a study did and found. They give no dosing or administration guidance and make no claims about effects in people.
Written for the bench
Chemistry, analytical methods, storage and the arithmetic of a solution: the material is treated as a laboratory material throughout.
What is in it
Three kinds of page, and the tools beside them.
Signed “Horizon Peptides editorial”, with the date each page was last checked against its sources.
- 12Compound overviews
- What the published literature reports on one compound: its chemistry, how it has been studied, the human evidence if there is any, and the limits of all of it.
- 17Guides
- Plain explanations of the subjects every product page leans on: what a peptide is, how one is made and tested, how to read a certificate, how to store a vial.
- 10Articles
- One question answered well, or one class of compounds surveyed, each linked back to the guide or overview it builds on.
- 6Tools
- Calculators for concentration, molarity and dilution, a compound explorer and short quizzes. Arithmetic for a solution on a bench, never guidance for use in a person or an animal.
Why a supplier publishes this
Everything we sell is for laboratory research use only, and research starts with reading. A page that says what a study actually did, in what model, with the source one click away, is more useful to a researcher than an adjective.
Start reading
A few pages to begin with.
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Guide · 4 min
What Are Peptides?
Chains of amino acids, and how research peptides are made.
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Guide · 4 min
Peptide vs Protein vs Amino Acid
Three words for one family of molecules, by length.
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Guide · 4 min
Why Peptides Are Lyophilized
What freeze-drying is and why water is the problem.
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Guide · 3 min
Peptide Storage Guide
Temperature, light and moisture, before and after opening.
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Tool
Compound Explorer
Search every compound in the catalogue by class, research area and format.
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Tool
Laboratory Calculators
Concentration, molarity, dilution and unit conversion for solutions on the bench.
The library
Read the research before anything else.
Free to read, with sources linked and the level of evidence stated.
For research use only
Every product on this site is supplied for laboratory research use only. Products are not for human or veterinary consumption and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. We do not provide dosing or administration guidance. Read our research use policy.