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General · 6 May 2026
Understanding these newly named molecules could open fresh research areas and offer clues for diseases such as childhood cancers. A new effort in Nature today officially named thousands of previously uncounted "dark proteins" as peptideins. These short proteins, often lacking clear functions, are now included in major gene and protein databases.
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