# Chemicals Hitch a Ride onto New Protein for Better Compounds - Berkeley Lab – Berkeley Lab News Center

> Berkeley Lab researchers developed ReACT, a method for attaching chemical cargo to the amino acid methionine in proteins, published in Science. The technique is aimed at drug development and protein imaging.

- Date: 2017-02-09 · published 2017-02-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Global · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72822-chemicals-hitch-a-ride-onto-new-protein-for-better-compounds-berkeley-lab
- Commodities: [Methionine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/METH.md)

## Why it matters

This is a biomedical chemistry development with no plausible effect on agricultural commodity supply, demand or prices.

## Sources

- newscenter.lbl.gov: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/02/09/chemicals-hitch-ride-onto-new-protein/
- eurekalert.org: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/542536

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