Biotechnology

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine.

Biotechnology in fiction

Ninth Day of Creation

Genetic engineering and drug design feature prominently in the work carried out at the fictional biotech company known as Immunological Technologies, which appears in the science thriller Ninth Day of Creation by Leonard Crane, published in 2000. Other notable biotechnology-related elements appearing in the book include a supposed solution to the protein folding problem, the creation of novel triple-helix based genetic medicines, and the reconstruction of the 1918 Spanish Flu from century-old fragments of viral RNA.

Related Topics:
Genetic engineering - Drug design - Fictional - Immunological Technologies - Ninth Day of Creation - Leonard Crane - 2000 - Protein folding - Genetic - Spanish Flu - RNA

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Star Trek

The Breen use starships with organic technology. The starship USS Voyager used bio-neural gel pack circuitry. Species 8472 used organic spacecraft.

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Breen - Starship - USS ''Voyager'' - Bio-neural gel pack - Species 8472 - Spacecraft

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Star Wars

The Yuuzhan Vong exclusively use organic technology and regard mechanical technology as blasphemy.

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