What serious researchers should expect from a supply partner.
Sourcing peptides isn't a commodity decision. The quality of the documentation, the precision of the labeling, and the rigor of the categorization all shape whether an experiment will actually reproduce. NuLumin's standards exist so detail-oriented buyers don't have to do the QC themselves before they buy.
Domains
5
Criteria
6 required
COA gate
Public
Naming
Peer-reviewed
The short version
- 6 documented standards, all required
- Mechanism-based taxonomy across 5 domains
- COAs public — no email gate, no signup
- Naming follows the peer-reviewed literature
NuLumin · Quality Management
Research Standards Scorecard
DOC-STD-001 · Revision 04
Criteria — all required
§01 — §06- 01Peer-reviewed research relevance for catalog inclusion
- 02Mechanism-based categorization across 5 research domains
- 03Standardized naming with no proprietary branding
- 04Batch-specific COA accessible before purchase
- 05Color-coded category system for instant identification
- 06Independent HPLC verification on every batch
Standards owner
Effective
2026-05-28
Next review · 2026-11-28
The standards scorecard — applied to every SKU before it ships.
Selection
What gets into the catalog
A compound joins the NuLumin catalog because it's actually been researched — not because it's trending on social media. We start with everything in the literature, filter for peer-reviewed mechanistic evidence, then check whether it can be synthesized cleanly and documented per batch. What clears every gate makes the catalog.
The funnel is real: ~2,400 known peptides at the top, 36 live in the catalog today. Popularity isn't a gate; demonstrated research relevance is.
A compound clears every gate or doesn't enter the catalog. Popularity is not a gate.
Categorization
One color per research domain, used everywhere
Every compound lives in one of five research domains based on what pathway it touches — Tissue, Cellular, Neural, Metabolic, Endocrine. Each domain has its own color, and that exact same hex code shows up on the product label, the COA header, and the navigation chip.
The point isn't aesthetic. The point is that you should be able to identify a domain at arm's length — pulling a vial out of a freezer rack — without reading any text.
Tissue Research
Label stripe · Nav chip · COA header band
#9B8FE8
155 · 143 · 232
Cellular Research
Label stripe · Nav chip · COA header band
#5B9FF5
91 · 159 · 245
Neural Research
Label stripe · Nav chip · COA header band
#4DC97A
77 · 201 · 122
Metabolic Research
Label stripe · Nav chip · COA header band
#F2C94C
242 · 201 · 76
Endocrine Research
Label stripe · Nav chip · COA header band
#E86E8A
232 · 110 · 138
Same hex everywhere — calibrated for label print + screen
Naming
One name per compound, sourced from the literature
Every NuLumin product uses the name that the peer-reviewed literature actually uses for the compound — no proprietary brand renames, no fragmentary marketing aliases, no ambiguity. If the literature calls it BPC-157, we call it BPC-157.
The label itself functions as a quick-reference document: compound name, category color, lot number, quantity, purity spec, storage, and RUO designation. Read it once, you know what's in the vial.
Peer-reviewed literature uses BPC-157 with the integer suffix
CAS
137525-51-0
Trade name TB-500 references the specific peptide fragment used in research
CAS
77591-33-4
CJC-1295 alone is unambiguous; DAC variant noted separately
CAS
863288-34-0
Common research name preferred over experimental code
CAS
170851-70-4
PT-141 is the dominant research-literature handle
CAS
189691-06-3
Epithalon spelling matches the original Russian source publications
CAS
307297-39-8
One name across the catalog · cross-referenced by CAS in documentation
Documentation
The COA is on the product page — before you buy
The Certificate of Analysis for any active batch is on the product page. Not gated behind account creation, not held behind an email request, not "available on request" — open, public, and zero clicks to verify. If you want to know what's in the vial before you buy, the answer is one tab away.
Each COA carries the actual values measured for that specific lot: HPLC purity, mass spec confirmation, lot number, synthesis date, visual appearance. Not a spec range, not a "typical value" — what the analyzer read on that batch.
BPC-157
5 mg
TB-500
5 mg
Epithalon
10 mg
Selank
10 mg
AOD-9604
5 mg
CJC-1295 + Ipamorelin
5 mg + 5 mg
Every active batch indexed · public, no email gate
Open COA library →Six things every NuLumin vial inherits
Six standards apply to every compound in the catalog. None of them are optional, and none of them are negotiable for a SKU to ship.