Commercial scientists work for organisations that need to protect their intellectual property in order to make a profit.
Scores of scientists work for the Interior Department on issues involving birds and bees, foxes and foxgloves, and all manner of other species and their habitats.
In a sense, Yale and the Hughes Institute have outsourced the genome project to a place where labs are built quicker and more cheaply — "China speed," Dr. Xu said, half-jokingly — and where talented young scientists work for a pittance.
Though some of the scientists work for government laboratories, the requests were all made on the basis of individual judgment, so far as he is aware, Dr. Atlas said.
The scientists work for tiny San Diego-based biotechnology company Allylix.
Other jobless scientists work for similar pay on displays for the National Science Museum.
They make scientists work for public enlightenment, and at the same time they arouse the feeling of disdain for astrologists or alchemists.
Occasionally, though, a paper would meet with approval of the referees and be accepted for publication: days I think most scientists work for!
