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biotechnology

technologies directly involving biology; formerly or more narrowly the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products
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Summary

biotechnology is an interdisciplinary science[1]. biotechnology ranks in the top 6% of interdisciplinary science entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,605 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: applied science[3], academic discipline[4], type of technology[5], industry[6]
  • Subclass of: technology[7]
  • Part of: technology[8], biology[9]
  • Commons category: Biotechnology[10]
  • Said to be the same as: Biological technology[11]
  • Has part(s): industrial biotechnology[12], medical biotechnology[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Biotechnology[14]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Biotechnology[15]
  • Described by source: Lean Logic[16]
  • Topic has template: Template:Biotechnology[17]
  • History of topic: history of biotechnology[18]
  • Practiced by: biotechnologist[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[20], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of biotechnology[22]

Why It Matters

biotechnology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] biotechnology is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Allen Institute applied science Beam Therapeutics bioengineering biology biorobotics Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics Department of Agrobiotechnology Enveda Erick Armingol Fraunhofer Institute for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Technology Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology genetic engineering Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute Giuseppe Placidi GSK Indian Immunologicals Limited Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia Institute for Research and Technology in Food and Agriculture Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Biotechnology and Antibiotics Joseph Byrum Khalid Zaffar Masoodi Lawrence J. Fogel Lean Logic Legend Biotech Mark Davies Medigen Vaccine Biologics MITAKY Monsanto

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 17DTFl
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → biotechnology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: biotechnology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910346|biotechnology (#289910346)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002639-biotechnologie
    Treccani's dizionario di medicina id → biotecnologia
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002639-biotechnologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  4. 19w ago · Horcrux · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani's dizionario di economia e finanza id → biotecnologia
    Treccani's enciclopedia italiana id → ['biotecnologie', 'biotecnologia_res-3cd0dc54-87ea-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Treccani's enciclopedia italiana id: biotecnologie"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Edam ontology id → topic_3297
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 2348, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  6. 21w ago · Horcrux · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → industrial biotechnology, medical biotechnology
    Cicap encyclopedia id → 100463
    Subclass of → technology
    Topic's main category → Category:Biotechnology
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Cicap encyclopedia id: 100463"
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