Mary Allen
- Flaviviruses such as dengue encode a protease that is essential for viral replication. The protease functions by cleaving well-conserved positions in the viral polyprotein. In addition to the viral polyprotein, the dengue protease cleaves at least
Nascent transcription assays, such as global run-on sequencing (GRO-seq) and precision run-on sequencing (PRO-seq), have uncovered a myriad of unstable RNAs being actively produced from numerous sites genome-wide. These transcripts provide a more
The glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1, also known as GR) binds to specific DNA sequences and directly induces transcription of anti-inflammatory genes that contribute to cytokine repression, frequently in cooperation with NF-kB. Whether inflammatory
Mycobacterium vaccae(NCTC 11659) is an environmental saprophytic bacterium with anti-inflammatory, immunoregulatory, and stress resilience properties. Previous studies have shown that whole, heat-killed preparations ofM. vaccae
A protocol can help with the tricky conversations essential to responsible research conduct, says Mary A. Allen. “Either this is sloppiness or misconduct, and either way I don’t think this is a lab I want to be in anymore.” I was terrified as I
Mary Allen holds up a valentine sent to her from a childhood friend. It sits in her cubicle where she is hard at work tearing apart genomic data looking for patterns. This friend, who has Down syndrome, is part of the reason that Allen, a