biotech

noun

bio·​tech ˈbī-ō-ˌtek 

plural biotechs

1

: biotechnology sense 1

2

: 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

Its customers are mostly pharma and biotech, along with academic labs and food and environmental companies. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

The Stanford dropout and founder of biotech startup Theranos was charged with fraud for lying about the technology and financial health of her company. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

The department is also attempting to revive administration plans to impose $100,000 fees for h2-B visas, which are used by foreign workers in high-skill fields such as biotech. — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026

Then there’s consumer AI, AI infrastructure, physical world AI, and AI health and biotech. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for biotech

• aztec
• breakneck
• codec
• exec
• mixtec
• paycheck
• pinchbeck
• recheck
• redneck
• toltec
• beck
• breck

Medical Definition

biotech

noun

bio·​tech ˈbī-ō-ˌtek 

1

: biotechnology sense 1

2

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