How to Use biotechnology in a Sentence

biotechnology

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  • Cockell first sees such biotechnology being used off world to extract nickel, copper or iron from rocks on the moon.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The biosciences, including biotechnology, will play a pivotal role in the fight against climate change.
    — Michelle McMurry-Heath Reprints, STAT, 23 May 2021
  • Since then, there have been some amazing advances in the fields of biotechnology and bioscience, with the promise of even more astounding breakthroughs to come.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • By the 1980s vaccine production stood on the cusp of change helped by the emergence of biotechnology.
    — Lara Marks, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Yancey, who now works for a biotechnology company in Boston, helped jumpstart the hunt for a new drug in the lake.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The region’s biotechnology hub and tourist attractions like the San Diego Zoo are known throughout the world.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The biotechnology company EQRx no longer seeks to disrupt prices in the non-small cell lung cancer space.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But, the firm has recently begun to show a bit more interest in biotechnology as a whole.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Oct. 2022
  • So far, some of the most impressive biotechnology hubs are in China and in Singapore.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The phages’ gene-editing tricks may inspire new biotechnology.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Dixon is wary of thinking of biotechnology as a silver bullet.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Chaiban tells me that all of the marine actives in the brand’s products are harvested in a lab with blue biotechnology through a process of bio-fermentation.
    — Meggen Taylor, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • The piece of alien biotechnology chooses his body as its host, turning him into the superhero Blue Beetle.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • New advancements in biotechnology have enabled the creation of vaccines in a faster way.
    — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But there was a problem—and no, not just the technical hurdle of restoring extinct species via biotechnology.
    — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In the arms race between biology and biotechnology, the weeds are winning.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The yogurt-makers weren’t looking for biotechnology’s Next Big Tool.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The crisis has been equally dire for biotechnology startups.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Both times the eggs were rapidly transported to Avantea, an advanced biotechnology lab in Italy.
    — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The Dropout, in which the actress captures the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her disgraced biotechnology company Theranos.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 May 2022
  • Researchers at the genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe conducted the study as part of a larger Covid project.
    — NBC News, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Later, Reyes finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • One San Diego building is filling up with biotechnology tenants as the push to make downtown a new life science hub continues.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Moreover, biotechnology is a frontier in which the U.S. has a formidable lead.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • And, quite frankly, this is biotechnology’s biggest failure.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There are many original ideas on covering longevity and biotechnology, and there are many ways to transform the human body to adapt to the environment.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Cushman’s approach is just one effort at using biotechnology to fix the problem.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Even before the pandemic, RNA therapeutics showed promise and were one of the fastest-growing fields in biotechnology.
    — John Cumbers, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The markets may be in free fall, but a few biotechnology companies had an exceptionally good day.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 May 2022
  • But investors in vaccine-makers’ shares, which have suffered amid a broader selloff in the biotechnology sector, won’t be able to breathe any easier.
    — David Wainer, WSJ, 6 June 2022

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