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Part of finding a cure to diseases such as Parkinson’s lies in understanding underlying cell mechanisms, according Ronald D. G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Health...
...with Kate & Leopold, in which the dashing but impecunious third Duke of Albany (Jackman) is zapped from 1876 New York (he is in town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...
...National Institutes of Health admits that just 24 of the 64 lines Bush cited are "fully characterized." Work can advance with just a dozen, but finding even that dozen has been difficult. "There are serious issues about when the cells will be practically available," says the NIH's Ron McKay. The NIH has a deal with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that gives scientists access to the stem-cell lines developed by prominent researcher James Thomson. Access to the other lines still has to be worked out. That may be why only six scientists so far have applied for federal...
DIED. GARDNER MCKAY, 69, TV heartthrob who left show business to become a successful playwright; of prostate cancer; in Oahu, Hawaii. When his South Seas series, Adventures in Paradise, ended in the early '60s, he turned down Marilyn Monroe's plea that he appear in her never finished film Something's Got to Give. After living in the Amazon, McKay wrote dozens of plays, including Sea Marks, and the well-received 1999 novel Toyer...
...Seltzer, McKay professor of computer science, and White, president of an affordable housing consulting firm, spoke to an audience at an Ann Radcliffe Trust event Wednesday about the difficulties of the balancing act that women often end up playing...