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[bahy-ol-uh-jee] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒi /




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Hundreds of studies in computer science and biology rely on it.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Chris Lowe, professor of marine biology and director of Long Beach State’s Shark Lab, said the great white was in a well-known migration pattern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Prominent marine biology professor Choi Yoon told local media that experts were particularly worried about a "critical" injury around the shark's eye.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

At the University of Michigan, El-Sayed majored in biology and political science and played on the lacrosse team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the discovery had a more important consequence: conceptually, Morgan had not just linked genes; he had linked two disciplines—cell biology and genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I can imagine biologies that are much different; I can imagine minds that are much different,” Frank says.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

The painter/sculptor/installation artist — perennially interested in biologies and ecologies — is now using augmented reality to imagine what our myths might look like if certain flora and certain fauna had co-evolved.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2019

Interestingly, such an approach would have been of little surprise to a group of largely forgotten 20th-century physicians who vehemently argued that breast cancers had distinctive biologies and therefore needed different treatments.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2018

The goal is to keep well people well, heading off problems that might be lurking in our individual biologies, and to identify targeted treatments when we get sick.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2015

Their biologies are cryptic and largely unexplored; most are scarce or hard to find, and seeing them in nature is a rare privilege.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012


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