Weinberg calls Kim "a polymath, " able to master the many different subfields of modern biology.

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"Most modern biology requires substantial levels of funding, " says Venter.

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Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were responsible for the discovery of a substance called green fluorescent protein, and its development into an important tool of modern biology.

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Arguably, modern biology has broken under the strain.

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Modern evolutionary biology as we understand it, which is to say variation via genetic drift, mutations, duplications combined with the pruning filter of natural selection, certainly explains a great deal.

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The horrible internal conflict between emotion and logic that confronts every new mother returning to work strikes me as one of the unfair circumstances our biology and modern age impose on women.

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The organic community remains unswayed by either biology or history, however, and modern genetic engineering remains prohibited from organic agriculture.

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For biotech has now shown that there are differences between the molecular biology of sustainably grown crops and those grown using modern agricultural techniques.

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Modern innovation springs from a deep understanding of physics, electronics, math, chemistry and biology--not Proust.

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