Boyd Haley

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<p ><b>Boyd E. Haley</b> (born September 22, 1940, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensburg,Indiana" title="Greensburg, Indiana">Greensburg, Indiana</a>) is a retired professor of chemistry at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kentucky" title="University of Kentucky">University of Kentucky</a>. The basic research interest of his laboratory centered on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry" title="Biochemistry">biochemical</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedicine" title="Biomedicine">biomedical</a> problems involving control at the molecular level, particularly in biological systems regulated by protein–nucleotide interactions where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetics" title="Bioenergetics">bioenergetics</a> involved are expressed through site-specific <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide" title="Nucleotide">nucleotide</a> binding of high affinity or through protein substrate phosphorylation. He has also investigated the effect of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(element)" title="Mercury (element)">mercury</a> on tissues and published on similarities between these and some biochemical changes reported in nerve cells in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease" title="Alzheimer's disease">Alzheimer's disease</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism" title="Autism">autism</a>. His views about mercury and dental amalgams go against the consensus held in the medical community.</p>

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