0 abbreviation for biotechnology: technology or industrial processes using living things such as cells and bacteria, especially in order to produce medical treatments:
1 → biotechnological :
2 → biotechnology :
There have been huge numbers of advances in biotech since the beginning of the new millennium.
3 a company that uses biotechnology:
Venture capitalists are increasing their investments in security and biotech.
The US biotech firm is one of the manufacturers of beta interferon.
The UK biotech group specializes in cancer and critical care treatments.
China is spending billions of dollars on new biotech research.
They wanted to apply their skills to a worthy cause developing biotech treatments for neglected diseases in developing countries.
116 perhaps captured in the willingness of producers to have biotech products tracked.
This publication is more likely to please protagonists than antagonists of biotech crops.
Stressing health concerns changes biotech agriculture into a personal matter of lifestyle, food obsessions, and risk tolerance.
