biotech

noun

bio·tech ˈbī-ō-ˌtek

plural biotechs

: biotechnology sense 1

: a company that utilizes biotechnology (as in the development of drugs or diagnostics for medicine)

At present, there is no common technology platform for obtaining or sharing genomics information, so biotechs are scrambling to develop their own systems for sifting through the data.—

Arlene Weintraub

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Shares fell about 4% last Tuesday after the biotech company reported mid-stage trial results for its experimental obesity treatment known as MariTide. —

Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024 San Diego has been linked to two homemade pipe bombs that went off on Aug. 28, 2003, at Chiron Corp., a biotech company in Emeryville, just across the bay from San Francisco. —

Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024 WikiLeaks founder Assange may be near the end of his long fight to stay out of the US US rivalry with China expands to biotech. —

San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024 The price inflation that results will also likely keep interest rates high, which might exacerbate issues with biotech investment. —

Alex Knapp, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for biotech