Looking back: Developments in chemical protein synthesis in 2020.

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.