Research Roundup: What Are Microproteins and What Do They Do and More

Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.

The Role of the Mysterious Microproteins

Genes code for proteins. Prior to the Human Genome Project, the Central Dogma was that one gene coded for one protein. And since there were about 100,000 known proteins, scientists believed there were 100,000 human genes. But there weren’t, there were about 20,000 genes and proteins are created by reading those genes in various ways—from beginning to end, backwards, starting in the middle, etc.