biological engineering

American  

noun

1. bioengineering.

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Etymology

Origin of biological engineering

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

"There are established processes to produce tagatose, but they are inefficient and expensive," said Nik Nair, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Tufts.

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"If we can restore something essential like the immune system, hopefully we can help people stay free of disease for a longer span of their life," says Feng Zhang, the James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, who has joint appointments in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering.

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"We created a new kind of protein therapeutic that can block glycan-based immune checkpoints and boost anti-cancer immune responses," says Jessica Stark, the Underwood-Prescott Career Development Professor in the departments of Biological Engineering and Chemical Engineering.

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Mirkin is a leading figure in chemistry and nanomedicine, serving as the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Medicine at Northwestern.

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"This study really helps to clarify how we should think about mitosis. In the past, mitosis was thought of as a blank slate, with no transcription and no structure related to gene activity. And we now know that that's not quite the case," says Anders Sejr Hansen, an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT.

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