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biotech

¹ American

[bahy-oh-tek] / ˌbaɪ oʊˈtɛk /

noun

Informal.

biotechnology.

biotech. ² American

abbreviation

biotechnology.

biotech British

/ ˈbaɪəʊˌtɛk /

noun

1. short for biotechnology
2. ( as modifier )
  
  a biotech company

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Etymology

Origin of biotech

By shortening

Example Sentences

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Earlier this month, Anthropic acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Earlier this year the company was in discussions to acquire Revolution Medicines, a cancer biotech that could have fetched around $30 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

For investors, the lesson might be that the best environment for biotech isn’t the one with the biggest deals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The complex plan would merge Universal with a blank-check company, Pershing Square Sparc Holdings, which would list in the U.S...Gilead Sciences agreed to buy German biotech Tubulis for up to $5 billion in cash.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

But plenty of science was already on hold while researchers, universities, and biotech companies sued one another over ownership of various cell lines.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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