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Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high-paying jobs.

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Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology attribute the lab's success to bold thinking, secure funding, and a collaborative culture.

"This way we cross barriers--something [that is] very difficult-- and the students benefit from a different way of doing science, from a broader perspective," says group leader Moya.

"Young scholars should seek evidence that administrators and senior colleagues who will be evaluating them for tenure--especially those with a more disciplinary focus--are supportive of interdisciplinary research and aware of the challenges of evaluating interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science."

"Diverse, well supported, and above all
flexible training and research programs must be one of our nation's scientific priorities, as flexibility often leads to innovation."

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.

Science editors, says Jonathan Wood, need to be able "to spot a good story and find the right way of getting it across."

Gregory is now nearing completion of his Ph.D. at UCLA so now he has to figure out the next step on his career path.

[Bowen's] recent appointment to Brown is his second at the institution, after teaching biology there from 1983 to 1991, and it marks the beginning of another chapter in his lifelong pursuit of knowledge.

Physicists, mathematicians, and others are finding new ways to apply quantitative skills to biomedical sciences.