But a group of biologists led by Eivind Hovig of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo has managed to find a way to speed the process up, by linking together the vast quantities of disconnected biochemical information that have already been published.
It will be interesting to see what other evolutionary biologists make of this as we enter the next decade of research.
"You are not hearing what you were before, " said Alberto Lopez, part of a husband-and-wife team of biologists trying to gauge the health of frogs on the island.
Bring in a team of biologists and chemists to experiment with different chemical variations of the potential drug, try them out in cells, try them out in mice, then in bunnies and dogs, and eventually try them out in humans.
Its staff of biologists and astrophysicists uses pattern-recognition software to get a clear picture of how all these genes are switching on and off, literally following how the genetic code is creating and recreating the body.
Bosse points to a study conducted by the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses, a 25-member group of biologists, engineers and statisticians representing federal entities, states and tribes, that compared upriver stocks of salmon to downriver socks.
With the completion of the Human Genome Project, biologists have a lot of information about what human genes are.
Either way, it suggests a profound lacuna in biologists' understanding of the world.
Now, with new technologies that allow scientists to find and alter microbes in ways that were never before possible, a new generation of biologists is looking to change that.
He drove out to meet a team of biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey on a 10-acre restricted area where lonely Joshua trees shook in 50 mile per hour winds.
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Mr. Henen, who has a doctorate in biology, is part of a little-known army of biologists and other scientists who manage the Mojave desert tortoise and about 420 other threatened and endangered species on about 28 million acres of federally managed military land.
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The 36-year-old professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the intellectual ringleader of a cadre of "synthetic biologists" who are building useful devices out of genetic material, much as bits of mortar or silicon are used to erect complex objects.
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"This database provides an example of how other biologists could similarly collaborate to collectively produce an inventory of all life on Earth, " Appeltans says.
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Decades of observation by dedicated elephant biologists, including the co-signers of this editorial, have led us all to the conclusion that we are far from understanding the whole story, and that what lies ahead will be worth every hour of waiting, and every dollar spent on careful conservation.
As CEO and founder of GNS Healthcare, I oversee a team of mathematicians, biologists, and data scientists as they crunch and decode healthcare data to unlock the mysteries of what treatment will work for specific patients.
Biologists have long dreamed of catching a new species in the act of forming.
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About two decades later, two French biologists described two species of giant tortoises.
Now, biologists at the University of Nevada, Reno and at the University of Houston have established that, in at least one case, it is.
That might help evolutionary biologists answer the question of why, for billions of years, and in every form of life on earth, only two base pairs are used.
And therefore it runs against the traditional Genentech narrative, in which a group of altruistic biologists come down from the ivory tower to save the brutes at the New Jersey-based drug giants.
It is the one that seems to allow H. pylori to thrive in the acidic environment of the stomach (which is there, in the view of most biologists, precisely to kill incoming bacteria).
Biologists at the University of Salford carried out tests in fish and chip shops, supermarkets and restaurants across the UK and discovered that 7% of the fish was not what it was sold as.
Hans Ellegren and Ben Sheldon, two biologists at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, and their colleagues, have demonstrated that female collared flycatchers do indeed adjust the sex ratios of their broods according to the sexiness of their mates.
But, according to biologists, the chief killer of prairie dogs is the sylvatic plague.
It is far from fair in its treatment of the many biologists who do not accept Gould's theory as a package.
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And since biologists already know which part of the genome makes which peptide, this approach immediately shows whereabouts in the genome the mutation is.
Biologists are unearthing a trove of genomic information about plants.
Biologists and laymen alike think of the genome as linear.
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He eliminated 24 departments and their chiefs, each focusing on a different disease group, and replaced the rigid hierarchy with small, interdisciplinary teams of two dozen biologists and chemists who report directly to lab heads.
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