The world as we know it changed dramatically in the spring 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was (and still is) a hard time for most of us. Luckily, the power of science enabled a good solution in form of a vaccine in less than 1 year. Of course, not only vaccine development boosted in 2020, but there were also several milestones in peptide chemistry. In this commentary, I would like to draw you away for a moment from the whole pandemic situation to discuss two exciting advances in chemical protein synthesis highlighted in 2020.

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回顾：2020年化学蛋白质合成的发展

由于 Covid-19 大流行，我们所知的世界在 2020 年春季发生了巨大变化。对我们大多数人来说，这曾经是（现在仍然是）一段艰难的时期。幸运的是，科学的力量在不到 1 年的时间内以疫苗的形式提供了一个很好的解决方案。当然，不仅疫苗开发在 2020 年得到推动，而且肽化学领域也出现了几个里程碑。在这篇评论中，我想让您暂时远离整个大流行形势，讨论 2020 年突出的化学蛋白质合成方面的两项激动人心的进展。