How this wire works

Who files the stories

Peptide Zone is a small independent newsroom. Stories carry the name of the wire rather than a personal byline, because each one passes through the same process: the day's events are gathered from public news feeds and agency pages, a draft is prepared, and the draft is checked before it is filed. The about page describes the newsroom and what it does not do.

Drafts are prepared with the help of an AI writing model, working only from the sources listed with the story. Every draft then goes through automated checks for structure, links, copied wording and dosing language, and an editor runs each day's batch and reads the stories once they are filed. AI assistance never replaces the source: if a figure cannot be traced to a named document, it does not appear.

How sources are chosen

We prefer the primary record: an agency decision, a label, a journal paper, a trial registry entry or the company's own filing. When a story starts from another outlet's report, that report is named and the underlying document is linked whenever it is public. Seller pages, clinic marketing and anonymous forum posts are never used as sources.

Every story ends with a primary source note and, for stories filed since October 2026, a list of the documents it relied on. Starter stories filed before then name their source in words only, so check those figures against the named source.

Priority levels

• Flash

  A first, an approval or a result that changes the field.

  5 on the wire
• Urgent

  Important for patients, prescribers or the market; worth reading today.

  29 on the wire
• Routine

  Useful context, deals, explainers and follow-ups.

  57 on the wire

The shape of a story

1. Slugline. Priority, desk code, story type and thread, so you know what you are reading before the headline.
2. Dateline and time. Where the news came from and when we filed it, in UTC.
3. Key number. The one figure the story turns on, with the label it needs to make sense.
4. Three questions. What is new, why it matters, what comes next. Answered before the body begins.
5. Story log. Background events and every later update, each with a time.

Source labels

Regulator

A decision, list or statement published by a medicines agency such as the FDA or EMA.

Journal

A peer-reviewed paper. We name the journal and, where relevant, the meeting where data were first shown.

Company release

A press release or investor statement. Useful and fast, but written by an interested party, so we say so.

Conference

Data presented at a scientific meeting before or without a full paper.

Our newsroom

Our own explainers and analysis, built on public records named in the piece.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it in place and add a line to the story log saying what changed and when. We do not silently edit figures. Headlines that were wrong are noted in the log too, and a story that turns out to rest on a false premise is withdrawn with a note rather than quietly deleted.

To report an error, use the contact form and name the story and the sentence. We check the claim against the source, reply if you left an address, and log the outcome on the story when a change is made. Updates that add new facts, such as a final decision after an advisory vote, are logged the same way and change the story's modified date.

Independence

Peptide Zone carries no advertising, sponsored stories, affiliate links or shop listings, and takes no payment from the companies it covers. Company releases are reported as company claims, and deal values are given the way the parties state them.

What we will not do

• Give dosing advice or tell anyone whether to start, stop or switch a medicine.
• Link to sellers of unapproved peptides or "research use only" products.
• Run sponsored stories or take payment from the companies we cover.

Starter stories on this site were written from public announcements and papers as remembered by the newsroom; verify each figure against its named source before relying on it. Read the full disclaimer