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biotechnology

Also known as biotech, BT

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AI overview

Biotechnology is the use of biological systems and organisms—like cells, bacteria, and plants—to develop new products and solve practical problems. It matters because it enables advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry that can improve human health and wellbeing.

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Research

808,184 papers

Advancing environmental biotechnology with microbial community modeling rooted in functional 'omics.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2024
Biotechnology and medicine of the future.JAMA · 1988
Field-Flow Fractionation in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Recent development of advanced biotechnology for wastewater treatment.Critical reviews in biotechnology · 2020
The expansion of fungal organisms in environmental biotechnology.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2024

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Encyclopedic overview

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History
Examples
Medicine
Agriculture
Industrial
Environmental
Regulation
Database for the GMOs used in the EU
Learning
References and notes
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thumb|A biologist conducting research in a biotechnology laboratory

Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists in the field are known as biotechnologists.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biotechnology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.