In the interview, Lloyd M. Smith discusses proteoforms, an area of research worthy of the next Human Genome Project.

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

For example, when the first draft of the human genome was published in 2003, scientists were surprised to find that sequence analysis revealed only around 25,000 genes, instead of the 50,000 to ...