biotech
noun
bio·tech
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plural biotechs
Definition of biotech
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: a company that utilizes biotechnology (as in the development of drugs or diagnostics for medicine)
At present, there is no common technology platform for obtaining or sharing genomics information, so biotechs are scrambling to develop their own systems for sifting through the data.— Arlene Weintraub
Examples of biotech in a Sentence
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Thomas Neff, founder of a biotech company known for its anemia treatment, died last Sunday at age 65. — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, "Thomas Neff, founder of SF biotech firm that pioneered anemia drug, dies," 31 Aug. 2019 The companies include consulting firms, banks, biotech companies, car companies, and tech giants such as Google. — Sarah Wu, BostonGlobe.com, "Here’s what you need to know about the MIT Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein," 22 Aug. 2019 The faculty prized the institute’s independence and noted contributions in chemical biology -- contributions that have seeded many local biotech companies. — Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Union-Tribune, "After a bitter battle with UCSD, USC’s Alzheimer’s program in San Diego moving forward," 18 Aug. 2019 Experts at Wageningen University and the biotech company KeyGene, both in the Netherlands, used genome sequencing and molecular diagnostics to confirm the TR4 diagnosis in infected plant samples from Colombia. — Sabine Galvis, Science | AAAS, "Colombia confirms that dreaded fungus has hit its banana plantations," 12 Aug. 2019 Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 and after that founded a number of biotech companies, including StarGene, a San Rafael company that made jewelry infused with the DNA of famous people. — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, "Kary Mullis, eccentric Berkley-educated chemistry Nobelist, dies," 10 Aug. 2019 The biotech company CRISPR Therapeutics, founded by one of the technology’s co-developers, has engineered a solution to treat both conditions that relies on genetic modifications connected to the production of fetal hemoglobin. — Time, "CRISPR Gene Editing Is Being Tested in Human Patients, and the Results Could Revolutionize Health Care," 6 Aug. 2019 But Church also has unquestioned scientific gravitas, having helped develop genome sequencing as well as CRISPR genome editing, and founded or advised dozens of biotech companies. — Sharon Begley, STAT, "Citing ‘nerd tunnel vision,’ biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffrey Epstein," 5 Aug. 2019 Helene Finney, a researcher at the biotech company Celltech, had also begun to design such a receptor for T cells. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'biotech.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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biotech
noun
bio·tech
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Medical Definition of biotech
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: a company that utilizes biotechnology (as in the development of drugs or diagnostics for medicine)