biologist
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The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute landed in the global spotlight in recent weeks—months after the warning—when a biologist who worked at the laboratory died of a mysterious pneumonia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
Maya Khosla, a wildlife biologist for hire and filmmaker and poet between gigs, was getting on-the-job training in a new role: detective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
In 1907, when William Bateson visited the United States to give talks on Mendel’s discovery, he stopped in New York to meet Thomas Hunt Morgan, the cell biologist.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The eggs’ appearance came as a surprise to beachgoers and biologists alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
To investigate how microorganisms digest biodegradable plastics, University of Konstanz biologists Harry Lerner and David Schleheck studied the entire process of microbial decomposition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Wu worked with biologists and used dim red light and a customised fisheye lens to minimise disturbance.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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
Sookie and the biologists rocked the shark, moving her just slightly to help Robin take the measurements.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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"Siberian Survivors" and "Tigers in the Wild"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: bio
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anim (life, mind, spirit); bio (life)
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