JFIFddyDuckyR:In a photo from 2002, Professor Vernon Ingram holds up cell cultures that he and senior technical associate Barbara Blanchard worked with during their research on the beta-amyloid plaques that attack the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Ingram died on Aug. 17, 2006, at the age of 82.&Donna Coveney/MITAdobed      * !1AQ"26a#3 b57qBrc$481!Aa"2Qqr3 ? -jDjr}E(uJV!y