Meet the people who want peptides to be made in America

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The SS Jeremiah O’Brien 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.

Roughly 150 people attended the event, where four types of peptide samples were provided to guests — 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...

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