biofacture

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ -facture.

Verb

biofacture (third-person singular simple present biofactures, present participle biofacturing, simple past and past participle biofactured)

1. (transitive) To produce (something) using biological methods.
   • 1992, Nicola Griffith, chapter 1, in Ammonite, London: Grafton, published 1993, →ISBN, page 27:

     What she had done instead was identify the short string of amino acids, peptides, that folded up to form the actual antigen of the viral protein, map out the amino acid sequence and then biofacture a combination of different peptides, matching different regions of the viral protein, in the hope that one or more of the synthetic peptides would fold up to mimic an antigenic site present on the viral protein.

   • 1993, Andrew Kimbrell, “Designing Genes”, in The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life, New York, N. Y.: w: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

     However, the use of restriction enzymes to isolate genetic material was only the first step toward the “biofacturing” of genes. […] [Stanley Norman] Cohen, [Annie C. Y.] Chang, and their gene-splicing team were intent on harnessing the multiplicative process of e. coli to biofacture identical copies of the toad genes that had been inserted into the bacterium.