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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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On a recent afternoon I joined Roden-Reynolds, the public health biologist, as he surveyed an elderly couple’s yard in Chilmark, a tick hot spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"There have been happy tears in my office because this is what nature should be," said conservation biologist Marissa Parrott.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Even before the human genome was fully sequenced, the biologist Sydney Brenner said that with a complete DNA sequence and a sufficiently large computer, he could “compute the organism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

More commonly found in the colder waters off Scotland, a marine biologist said although the lion's main sting was "nasty", it was not dangerous.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

On the wall behind his half-ton desk hangs the only image: a charcoal portrait of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

P-22 was first discovered living in Griffith Park by a group of biologists in 2012, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The invasion has long puzzled biologists because Guam's population is believed to have begun with only a small number of snakes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Yet, he argues, biologists have long sought to understand life by taking it apart, and we might also understand it by learning how to synthesize organisms from component parts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Its variety and complexity has fascinated biologists, but with so many different songs, it has been difficult to study on a global scale.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nitrogen mustard, after all, is not sprayed upon whole populations from the air; its use is in the hands of experimental biologists or of physicians who use it in cancer therapy.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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