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biological engineering

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Definition of biological engineering 

: 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

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1898, in the meaning defined above

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