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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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Shokat, a chemical biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, co-founded RevMed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

"The topic remained so exciting that it became my doctoral thesis," says the biologist.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Rick Bass is a writer, a former wildlife biologist and geologist, an environmental activist, and program director for the Montana Project, which helps artists advocate for open space and conservation.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

“These mosquitoes really like living with us,” Douglas Norris, a vector biologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told me.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Her dad is a chef and wants to open a restaurant of his own, and her mom is a marine biologist.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

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

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

Together with local leopard experts and evolutionary biologists, we collected muscle or skin tissue of the leopards and compared them with genomes of leopards from other parts of Africa.

From Science Daily Jun. 24, 2026

In fact, delayed mortality may be more extensive than the immediate kill and, as the Montana biologists discovered, it may go unreported because it occurs after the fishing season.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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