Relating to or involving the use of biological organisms or their components to develop new technologies and products.
From biotechnology + -ical (adjective suffix). This term became common in the 1970s-80s as genetic engineering and molecular biology advanced rapidly.
When news reports talk about 'biotechnological breakthroughs' in medicine, they usually mean something grown in a lab using living cells—like lab-grown meat or new vaccines!
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