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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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"All I wanted was my job back," biologist Brown said.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

"This is not how an evolutionary biologist would think about the problem."

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

I’m a public health policy and communications strategist and a former molecular biologist, so I’m often asked for help making health decisions.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

“It is a convergence of a lot of technology all at once,” said Jeff Coller, an RNA biologist and a professor at Johns Hopkins University, who wasn’t involved in the project.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

A brief letter from John said that an American biologist might work with him during the following year.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

Marine biologists and fisheries scientists believe human influence is the main cause - impact on climate; hydropower systems that eels have to migrate through; pollution and contamination; introduction of exotic parasites; and overfishing.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

As they do yearly, Marine biologists and wildlife officials urge fans to respect Neil’s privacy and let him molt: The more peace he gets, the more we can look forward to his next visit.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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