In the form of cancer he studies, genetic information has meant that drugs can be developed very rapidly.
He also has friends who collect various things, and he studies the seriousness with which they tend to their collections.
Paul Cannon knows more than most, he's a British taxonomic mycologist, rarer now than many of the species he studies.
Ken Mankoff is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studies ice and ocean interactions.
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Across the island in David Hyrenbach's lab, the impact of plastic debris is apparent among the animal species he studies: birds.
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Johns Hopkins University behavioral biology professor Roland Griffiths struggles with the same ethical questions when he studies the chemicals behind hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate accountability and financial reporting.
Mr Okono, who is working as a security guard as he studies for a masters degree, can see himself applying for British citizenship one day.
He studies the animals by watching them run on a tiny treadmill-like apparatus or recording the way they manipulate their bodies when they fall off vertical surfaces.
Soil scientist Michel Cavigelli of the U.S. Department of Agriculture agrees that no-till fields, like the one he studies in rural Maryland, can hold more carbon than plowed fields.
"He studies opponents about as well or better than most any coach I've been around, " said former Giants head coach Ray Perkins, under whom Belichick worked as an assistant in 1979 and 1980.
He studies the material properties of tissue and organs from animals and cadavers to assign shape, size, density, mass and ten or more coefficients that describe how each cube of virtual flesh will deform when confronted with a given force from a given direction.
Third category: This is he who studies it because he believes it is permissible or wants to make it permissible (under Islam).
He says studies have found traces of the bacteria in the bowel lining of patients with Crohn's.
And he still studies up on his opponents, looking to use any competitive advantage and exploit any weakness.
He unearthed studies in medical journals, revealing that the anti-malaria medication the Army gave him and other soldiers can cause the psychiatric symptoms he suffered in Iraq.
He said studies of microbes in ice above Lake Vostok remained "contentious" because of the issue over kerosene - of which the Vostok cores are said to "reek".
And, oh yes, he really liked case studies, and showed me his folder of dog-eared case studies that he seemed to believe were the key to his success.
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Austin Frakt responds with what has now become a familiar refrain at his blog: He dismisses studies showing that Medicaid enrollees do worse than the uninsured, touts studies that show the reverse and claims that new Medicaid enrollees are going to get more care than otherwise.
First category: This is he who studies it in order to find out the truth of it, or to know why the Shari'a is preferred over it, or to benefit from it in a way which does not contradict the Shari'a, or to benefit someone else.
But he cautioned the studies were preliminary, and he hopes that further research might help identify which of the statins would work best in each individual disease.
He found the 42 studies, and he and statistician Kathy Wolski did the analysis and wrote the paper in a matter of days.
The scuttle contained only a scarcity of coals and he would want those for his studies, so he gashed the fireplace embers with an iron poker and held his hands over their golden, waning heat.
Our corporate finance professor had actually participated in 3 of the case studies he taught.
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