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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biotechnology
noun
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■ NOUN
company
▪ It was invested in fledgling biotechnology companies.
▪ Many millions of dollars have flooded into new biotechnology companies in pursuit of interferon and other potential moneyspinners.
▪ But the uncertain future of Speywood Laboratories, a small biotechnology company which funded the project threatens its development.
▪ The biotechnology companies would then directly buy a licence for a particular technique rather than negotiating with individual universities.
industry
▪ Opportunities exist in University departments and research institutes, in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and medicine.
▪ Additional information technology product sectors will be studied together with selected areas in the rapidly evolving biotechnology industries.
▪ Harwell was considering diversifying into new non-nuclear areas for the offshore and biotechnology industries.
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▪ Bill says on the last visit to her Outer Banks cottage, he and Ann played miniature golf and discussed biotechnology.
▪ But this is the first major announcement of aid for the drug industry, apart from £9 million for biotechnology research last month.
▪ Development of this approach in experimental closed ecosystems promises big terrestrial payoffs from this form of space biotechnology.
▪ For foreign exchange, the government hopes to develop the tourist business and its chief pride, biotechnology.
▪ So is a speeding up of the process through biotechnology really any different?
▪ These two truly began the new age of cloning-which means they initiated a new age of biotechnology.
▪ These will form the basis for its future plans in plant biotechnology.
▪ Today it might be computers or biotechnology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
biotechnology

biotechnology \bi`o*tech*nol"o*gy\ n. same as bioengineering.

biotechnology

bioengineering \bi`o*en*gin*eer"ing\ n.

  1. biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.

    Syn: ergonomics.

  2. the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also biomedical engineering.

  3. the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also biotechnology.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biotechnology

also bio-technology, 1947, "use of machinery in relation to human needs;" 1972 in sense of "use of biological processes in industrial production," from bio- + technology.

Wiktionary
biotechnology

n. 1 The use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications. 2 The application of the principles and practices of engineering and technology to the life sciences.

WordNet
biotechnology
  1. n. the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes; "biotechnology produced genetically altered bacteria that solved the problem"

  2. the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments [syn: bioengineering, ergonomics]

Wikipedia
Biotechnology

Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.

For thousands of years, humankind has used biotechnology in agriculture, food production, and medicine. The term is largely believed to have been coined in 1919 by Hungarian engineer Károly Ereky. In the late 20th and early 21st century, biotechnology has expanded to include new and diverse sciences such as genomics, recombinant gene techniques, applied immunology, and development of pharmaceutical therapies and diagnostic tests.

Biotechnology (disambiguation)

Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products. It may also refer to:

  • Biotechnology engineering
  • Biotechnology High School, a public high school in Freehold Township, New Jersey
  • Biotechnology Industry Organization, an American trade organization
  • Biotechnology Heritage Award, recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of biotechnology

Usage examples of "biotechnology".

Some bioinformatics companies cater to large users, aiming their products and services at genomics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies by creating custom software and offering consulting services.

Some of the proposals brought up interesting problems, and several strong ones in a row made them aware of just how amazing contemporary work in bioinformatics was, and what some of the potential benefits for human health might be, if all this were to come together and make a robust biotechnology.

Most experts believe that only a person, a group, or a country with access to advanced biotechnology would be capable of manufacturing and delivering a lethal anthrax aerosol.

While he has produced an unabashedly commercial page-turner, Braver has also probed, in a profound and often disturbing fashion, some fundamental questions about the ever-expanding role of biotechnology in modern life.

All in all, this courtroom seemed an odd place to litigate complex issues of biotechnology, but that was what they had been doing for the past two weeks inFrank M.

Believe me, sir: Applied Homeotics is a whole new field of biotechnology.

Three years ago, he began a series of stories set in a fantastic Cordwainer Smithian future world, somewhat recovered from the destruction of the ancient civilization of the Utopians, where biotechnology rules.

Ciphergen Biosystems, a biotechnology company in Palo Alto, California, is now selling a range of strips for isolating proteins according to various properties, such as whether they dissolve in water or bind to charged metal atoms.

In the decades to come, biotechnology will far transcend these rather simple options, presenting us with fresh choices which will excite us, horrify us, tempt us, and provoke endless arguments -- all dancing about one central question: who are we.

This has given rise to speculations that the weapons involved may have been biological, speculation fueled by the fact that one of the indicted men, Christopher Vincent DelCorvo, was until recently employed by a privately owned biotechnology company, Verico, of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Jock wants me to study Neanderthal biotechnology for a month, learn all that I can.

Thanks to the march of biotechnology, I have a new pair of legs to replace the ones I lost in 2119.

Industry executives, health-care experts, biotechnology entrepreneurs.

Of course antibiotics is a very crowded part of the market, because the underlying biotechnology is mostly pretty old.

The cycle of life and death and new birth was all around here, none of it twisted by Yuuzhan Vong biotechnology, none of it poisoned by the machines, greed, and exploitation all too native to this galaxy.