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Kendall Morgan

Kendall is a science writer based in North Carolina. She has a PhD in Biology from the University of Oregon and a certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes about science, medicine and science culture and is dedicated to making it easier for scientists to share what they make and do with each other and the world.

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How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

Kendall Morgan November 25, 2014

It’s well known that exercise can help fight stress and depression, and now researchers have reported a mechanism based on studies of transgenic mice that helps to explain how it works. The findings in a recent issue of Cell demonstrate how PGC-1a1, a transcriptional coactivator ...
CRISPR

Introducing an All-in-One CRISPR/Cas9 Vector System for Multiplex Genome Engineering

Kendall Morgan November 12, 2014

A newly established all-in-one vector construction system for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex genome engineering is now available thanks to researchers at Japan’s Hiroshima University who described their new tool in Scientific Reports in June. “The multiplexity is one of the most ...
Microbiology

A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

Kendall Morgan October 16, 2014

It’s pretty hard to escape news and fears of Ebola these days, as the infectious disease once limited to small pockets in Africa has spread to urban areas and across the ocean. A nurse in Dallas was the first to be infected in the United States while caring for a patient, ...
Plasmid Tags

SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

Kendall Morgan August 13, 2014

Mark Howarth’s lab at the University of Oxford is dedicated to generating new tools to manipulate biology based on molecular features found in nature, with the ultimate goal to improve the diagnosis of disease, and cancer in particular. They recently introduced the ...
Fluorescent Proteins

The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins

Kendall Morgan July 29, 2014

Updated May 10, 2021. In the world of fluorescent proteins and their use for imaging cell biology, Michael Davidson’s lab at Florida State University has been the go-to place. In 2012, his National High Magnetic Field Lab worked with an impressive 1,350 scientists from more than ...
Other Plasmid Tools

Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

Kendall Morgan June 17, 2014

With the meteoric rise of CRISPR technology, the ability to direct enzymes – from nucleases to transcription factors – to specific sequences of DNA has become commonplace. This ability has opened up a world of possibilities in the engineering of complex gene networks. A ...
Synthetic Biology

Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

Kendall Morgan June 12, 2014

Nicola Patron is Head of Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an engineer than a biologist. Their focus at the lab is on plant-pathogen interactions, and her aim is to produce constructs and edit genomes so as to make plants, and ...

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