Word: alick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interferon is a large hormone-like protein produced by the cells of all vertebrate animals. It was discovered in 1957 in Britain by Virologists Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann during their investigation of a curious phenomenon: people are almost never infected by more than one virus at a time. Seeking an explanation, the researchers infected cells from chick embryos with influenza virus. What they found was a substance that protected the chick cells from both the flu and other viruses. Because it interfered with the infection process, it was dubbed interferon...
...Page One of the Sun and other London papers last week was the bizarre story of the disappearance of Mrs. Alick McKay, wife of a director of the News of the World. As police sought to establish whether she had been kidnaped, they were deluged with calls from clairvoyants and cranks. One anonymous letter concluded: "I will let Mrs. McKay go if the News of the World and the Sun publikly announce that they will not corupt our kids any more by printing all that filth...