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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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The marine biologist looked back to a 2004 incident in Massachusetts, when water jets were used to drive a great white shark away from a shallow pond.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

For the past five years, Sweet and fellow graduate student Mat Bloomfield have worked with cell biologist Daniela Cimini to investigate cells carrying abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a common characteristic of cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The emergence of myelin is given particular emphasis, being compared by cell biologist Robin Franklin to the “invention of microprocessors in computing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

For the last 33 years my fieldwork as an evolutionary biologist has brought me into close contact with a wide range of human societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Wu worked with biologists and used dim red light and a customised fisheye lens to minimise disturbance.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

State biologists who monitor salmon nests in the Sacramento River estimated on Sept. 4 that about 20% of the eggs may not survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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