biological engineering

noun

: bioengineering sense 2

Just as affordable hardware and software widened access to computing, the tools for serious biological engineering are bringing biological research within reach of the citizen scientist.

—Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury-News, 23 Sept. 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

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