Jinkinson Smith

Jinkinson Smith is an aspiring science writer and bioinformatician from Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He received his B.S. in biology from Oglethorpe University in 2018 and his M.S. in bioinformatics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020. He has a significant interest in human genetics and genomics.

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Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false-coloured cryogenic scanning electron micrograph).

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20 July 2020 • 2 minutes read

Does 'junk DNA' play a role in stem cell differentiation?

by Jinkinson Smith

A part of the human genome derived from viral RNA has been shown to play a major role in inducing stem cells to become neurons...

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