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Hi George,

indeed - but it would seem that it's used in the sense of a particular
organism, or 'distinct diseases with differing biologies', not in terms of
a whole study area.
Merriam-Webster on biology:
1     a branch of knowledge that deals with living organisms and vital
processes
2 a: the plant and animal life of a region or environment
   b: the life processes especially of an organism or group; broadly :
ecology

Again, you can argue about it (life processes of an organism are just a
smaller branch of knowledge), and make a fair case for 'microscopies'.
Boils down to preference.

Phil


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, George McNamara
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> Hi Phil,
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> 120 PubMed hits for "biologies" disagree with you. Not as popular as
> "biologics" with 5487 hits (including the name of a journal - including
> PMID 22956860 - the first "biologies" hit).
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> George
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>
> On 10/9/2012 6:06 AM, phil laissue wrote:
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>> you can argue about it, i guess, but 'microscopies' just sounds weird to
>> me. it's an area of study, you wouldn't write about molecular and cellular
>> biologies.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Raghu Parthasarathy<
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>>> It’s a bit strange to send a grammar question to this email list, but
>>> since it deals with microscopy and has perhaps come up in other
>>> contexts, I
>>> thought someone reading may have insights.  We’ve written a paper whose
>>> title contains the phrase ‘[...] using confocal and light sheet
>>> fluorescence microscopies’ (i.e. in which we use both confocal microscopy
>>> and light sheet fluorescence microscopy to image things).  A reviewer
>>> suggests replacing “microscopies” with “microscopy.”  I think
>>> “microscopies” sounds better, but as a counter-point, I would think “...
>>> comparing left-handed and right-handed calligraphy” would sound better
>>> than
>>> “calligraphies” if I were writing about handwriting.  Thoughts? (Sorry
>>> for
>>> stretching the boundaries of the confocal list – hopefully it’s not too
>>> annoying!)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Raghu
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