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Institute of Genetics and Cancer

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Head shot of Chris Boyd

“It doesn’t seem that long, but mirrors argue otherwise”

Dr Chris Boyd is retiring after starting work at the University of Edinburgh 40 years ago. He started working independently in the Molecular Biology department in 1986 on small plasmid mobilisation systems in E coli. Despite good progress in establishing a one-person lab from scratch, building on related studies carried out as my first postdoc […]

2nd April 2026 0

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Game-changing breakthroughs in Cystic Fibrosis treatment

Dr Chris Boyd, Institute of Genetics and Cancer Can you explain in lay terms what cystic fibrosis is and how many people it affects? Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-limiting genetic disease affecting people inheriting bad mutations (DNA mistakes) in both copies of a gene called CFTR. Their cells cannot produce normal CFTR protein which […]

8th September 2025 0

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