Analytic of the Prototype

It is time to interrupt the main scenario now for an extensive description of the procedures required to demonstrate the purity of synthetic human relaxin. The physiologists should particularly appreciate a rigorous approach to this portion of the research for if there are questions about the purity or authenticity of a hormone, enzyme, factor or whatever, unequivocal interpretation of their measurements in whole animals would be even more difficult. Relaxin obliges to provide an example of such an occurrence which casts a shadow over many years of painstaking measurements in whole animals. This chapter is set aside for important technical know-how that is required to ascertain authenticity and purity of the product of a synthesis. Students of this discipline might think of it as a protein chemists’ bootcamp, designed to make him exert a great deal of effort to destroy his illusions about a “pure” product.