How to Use biotechnology in a Sentence

biotechnology

noun
  • But biotechnologies are dual-use — they can be used for both good and ill.
    — R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Breed works as a sales rep for a biotechnology firm and spends much of her free time planning the swim.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But how does that prove he was paid by the biotechnology industry?
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2014
  • This is the least important of the five events for biotechnology.
    — Henry T. Greely, STAT, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Dixon is wary of thinking of biotechnology as a silver bullet.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The phages’ gene-editing tricks may inspire new biotechnology.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Roth said there's fear among scientists the public might think that biotechnology is going to save all the species.
    — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Those big-dollar bets are more often made on the region’s life sciences and biotechnology firms.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Maryland is not a small player in healthcare or biotechnology.
    — Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2026
  • But, the firm has recently begun to show a bit more interest in biotechnology as a whole.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The biotechnology company is raising funds at a time its vaccine work is in the spotlight.
    — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • As this biotechnology continues to advance, what kind of a role does the government need to play?
    — WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • New advancements in biotechnology have enabled the creation of vaccines in a faster way.
    — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The biosciences, including biotechnology, will play a pivotal role in the fight against climate change.
    — Michelle McMurry-Heath Reprints, STAT, 23 May 2021
  • Ramaswamy also made a name—and a fortune—for himself in the biotechnology space and with his business ventures.
    — Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Over the past decade, there has been $800 billion in new investment in biotechnology.
    — Fred D. Ledley, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Fast-growing fields such as AI and biotechnologies might appear as a safer bet to fund with the available resources.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • How big a role biotechnology will play in the economy of the 21st-century world is hard to predict.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The move came as analyst Michael Yee joined the firm as global head of biotechnology research.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2026
  • By the 1980s vaccine production stood on the cusp of change helped by the emergence of biotechnology.
    — Lara Marks, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Today, America still leads the world in biotechnology.
    — Sen. Todd Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Goldman is much more bullish on Danaher’s biotechnology business next year than the Street is giving it credit for.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
  • So far, some of the most impressive biotechnology hubs are in China and in Singapore.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 15 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • America can either cede the future of biotechnology to our adversaries or summon the vision and resolve to lead it.
    — Sen. Todd Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025

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