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Jacob Turcotte/Staff Today, volunteer wardens with the Cetus Research & Conservation Society Straitwatch program monitor the reserve and gather population data on the whales and their pods.
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Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
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Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
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“Cetus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cetus. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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Cetus
noun
Ce·tus
ˈsēt-əs 
: a group of stars seen above the equator and south of Pisces and Aries
Etymology
Latin, literally, "whale"
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