Biologist

 is a mostly passive skill that turns people into more competent researchers, boosting progress by 4-6% per relay. While both and  are clearly superior, this skill is accessible to a larger number of people.

Furthermore, s are able to use the to print a specific pill, rather than a random one. The distiller can still only be used once per day. This ability can be quite nice if the ship started with good pills that give large amounts of and/or.

Standard Roster
should always take over this skill if she has to choose. She will lose a bonus on two useful NERON projects and the distillation action, but in turn gains bonus healing and the ability to perform surgeries. Of course, taking both means you get two research bonuses.

On the other side, lacks, and desperately needs  to increase his efficiency. should increase the others' relayers to the point of being an equivalent to 's proficiency, but the will quickly render this null if none of you are s.
 * Regardless, both and  benefit from the synergy between  and : they can print the best  thrice a day, instead of only once.

A  can contribute twice as much in between watering his precious, and  and  can speed up research after they finished phoning each other.

From a, it should obviously go to a person able to do lots of research, or regularly passing by the.
 * Any of the innate  could forgo the skill and learn it from the book, if they want 4 of their other innate skills.

At least somebody having the skill can be important in case something happens to the main researcher ( or ), in order to keep the lab work going, especially by having someone who can advance the by more than 1%.

Custom synergies
As said previously,  synergies quite well with and  to increase their proficiency at the lab. Having the three together would make a research powerhouse surpassing (at the cost of her polyvalence).

Similarly, synergies quite well: the ability to distill the best pill thrice a day will help offset the 's consumption, especially if there are several Bio-, or simply to work on Research while having a job on the side: being a, an , simply a generalist, or maybe even the.
 * may give if you're only interested in the free.

Finally, a will require the help of a competent researcher to implement their researches faster and more efficiently; reducing the huge amount of  spent, and thus the ship's difficulty curve. Since does not grant any proficiency bonus, they do not have to be the same person.

Affected actions

 * +4-6% bonus to efficiency on all research.

(NERON's Core):
 * Bonus to efficiency on NERON Projects:

Affected items
Medicines:
 * Effects of consumption can be read.