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biotechnology

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the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments

the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes

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If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. Alex Berenson

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. Freeman Dyson

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. Leon Kass

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. Joe Lieberman

Like all the new technologies that have arisen from scientific knowledge, biotechnology is a tool that can be used either for good or for evil purposes. The role of ethics is to strengthen the good and avoid the evil. Freeman Dyson

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. Lois McMaster Bujold

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