See Also: biotechnology(medicine)
Biotechnology(money)
Biotechnology(health)
biotechnology(dictionary)
biotechnology(encyclopedia)
biotechnology(dictionary)
XCEED Biotechnology Ltd(finance)
PRANA Biotechnology Limited(finance)

biotechnology (sh)




Application to industry of advances made in the biological sciences.

The growth of the field is linked to the development in the 1970s of genetic engineering and to the 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision that "a live human-made microorganism is a patentable matter," which resulted in the establishment of numerous commercial biotechnology firms that manufacture genetically engineered substances for a variety of mostly medical, agricultural, and ecological uses.