In a sentence
Six example sentences with biotechnology, each labelled with its topic.
Two graduates founded a biotechnology firm that brews leather in tanks instead of raising a single animal.
Startups
Investors treat biotechnology like weather, since one approval can double a portfolio and one refusal can erase it.
Finance
Modern insulin comes from engineered yeast, a biotechnology triumph that freed supply from any animal source at all.
Medicine
A 1980 Supreme Court ruling let biotechnology firms patent a living bacterium, and the industry's funding changed overnight.
Law
Biotechnology labs are tuning microbes to digest plastic, though the fastest strain still needs weeks to eat a bottle.
Environment
Most hard cheese now relies on biotechnology, since the enzyme that sets the curd comes from engineered microbes rather than calves.
Cooking
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