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

Examples of biotech in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Shares of Danish biotech company Zealand Pharma, which is also developing its own obesity treatment, fell 8.4%. —

Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 17 July 2024 Mike Walsh is the founder and CEO of Patient Advocacy Strategies, a biotech consulting firm based in Boston. —

Raviv Pryluk and Mike Walsh, STAT, 12 July 2024 Adam Scott stars as Mark Scout, who works a desk job at a mysterious biotech company known as Lumon. —

Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 July 2024 And while her boyfriend likely won't appear (a doctor who works in biotech investing, he's asked to remain out of the public eye), Hubbard will be filming again with Radke. —

Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for biotech

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