synthetic biology.

A field that designs or modifies biological systems and components using engineering approaches.

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Words that belong together

• synthetic biology research
• synthetic biology laboratory

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The synthetic biology laboratory designed a microbe to process the waste.

Her synthetic biology research had produced a living sensor, not a new species of machine.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.