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Biorce

Biorce is a Barcelona-based health technology startup founded in 2024 that sells Aika, an AI platform for designing and running clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies.

Bioreactor

A bioreactor is a vessel that provides a controlled environment for growing cells or microorganisms, serving as the production vessel of the pharmaceutical, food, and biofuel industries.

A biorefinery is a processing facility that converts biomass into fuels, power, chemicals, and materials, modeled on the petroleum refinery; the concept arose in the late 1990s alongside green chemistry.

Bioremediation

Bioremediation, also known as biotreatment, is an environmental cleanup technology using microorganisms to break down contaminants in soil, groundwater, and sludge, applied in situ or ex situ.

Bioresmethrin

Bioresmethrin (NRDC 107), the (1R)-trans isomer of resmethrin, is a type I synthetic pyrethroid insecticide invented by Michael Elliott at Rothamsted in 1967; about 50 times as active as pyrethrin I against houseflies, light-unstable, used in household and public health, now withdrawn or banned in the EU, UK, and New Zealand.

Bioresonance Therapy

Bioresonance therapy, also called MORA therapy or electrodermal testing, is an unproven complementary-medicine method using electromagnetic waves to diagnose and treat disease; controlled trials and regulators find no supporting evidence.

Oct 22, 2026

Bioresorbable electronics

Bioresorbable electronics, also called transient electronics, are devices built from materials like silicon nanomembranes, magnesium, and silk that dissolve harmlessly in the body, avoiding surgical removal.

Sep 29, 2026

Bioretention

Bioretention is a stormwater management practice using vegetated soil media to capture, filter, and infiltrate runoff from paved surfaces, pioneered in Prince George's County, Maryland, around 1990.

BioRobotics Institute

The BioRobotics Institute (Istituto di BioRobotica) is a biorobotics research institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, established in 2011 and headquartered in Pontedera, near Pisa, Italy.

Biorthogonal wavelet

A biorthogonal wavelet is a wavelet paired with a dual basis, one used for analysis and one for synthesis, enabling symmetric, linear-phase compactly supported wavelets.

BioRxiv

bioRxiv is a free, open-access preprint server for the life sciences, founded by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2013, where researchers post manuscripts before peer review.

BIOS

The BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, is the firmware of a personal computer that initializes the hardware at power-on and then loads the operating system.

Bios no Oka

Bios no Oka (ビオスの丘), or Bios Hill, is a subtropical nature theme park and botanical garden in Uruma City, central Okinawa, Japan. Admission (2,200 yen adults) includes a 25-minute lake cruise; highlights are water buffalo cart rides, orchids, goat walks, and forest trails.

Biosafety

Biosafety: safe working practices for handling biological materials, especially infectious agents, covering laboratory containment levels 1–4, risk assessment, biosecurity, the Cartagena Protocol on GMOs, and WHO dual-use research governance.

Biosafety cabinet

A biosafety cabinet, also called a biological or microbiological safety cabinet, is a ventilated laboratory enclosure that uses HEPA-filtered directional airflow to protect the worker, materials, and environment.

Biosafety level

A biosafety level, also called a biological safety level, is a set of laboratory containment precautions for working with infectious biological agents, ranked BSL-1 through BSL-4.

Biosand filter

A biosand filter is a household-scale slow sand filter developed by David Manz at the University of Calgary in the 1990s to treat drinking water in batches.

Bioscope (2025 film)

Bioscope (பயாஸ்கோப்), subtitled The Story of the Story, is a 2025 Tamil comedy-drama by Sankagiri Rajkumar about the making of his 2011 debut Vengayam; released 3 January 2025, streaming on Aha from 31 January 2025.

Biosecurity

Biosecurity refers to organizational and individual protective steps keeping pathogens and toxins from being lost, stolen, misused, diverted, or deliberately released, spanning laboratory, animal health, public health, and agricultural contexts.

Biosensor

A biosensor, also called a biodetector, is an analytical device that detects substances by combining a biological recognition element with a transducer, first proposed in 1962.

BioSentinel

BioSentinel is a NASA CubeSat launched on Artemis I in 2022 to study deep space radiation effects on dried yeast, the first biological experiment beyond the Earth-Moon system.

Biosffer Dyfi Biosphere Reserve

Biosffer Dyfi (Dyfi Biosphere), Wales' only UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1977 and redesignated 2009; a 93,508 ha estuarine and upland area around the River Dyfi with Cors Fochno raised bog, Ynyslas dunes and a Ramsar estuary.

BioShock

BioShock (2007), 2K Boston/2K Australia first-person shooter set in the undersea city Rapture, spiritual successor to System Shock 2; plasmids, Big Daddies, Ken Levine, over half a billion dollars retail revenue.

BioShock (series)

BioShock series: retrofuturistic FPS franchise by Ken Levine and Irrational Games, published by 2K. BioShock (2007), BioShock 2 (2010), Infinite (2013); Rapture, plasmids, Big Daddies; 25 million sold; BioShock 4 at Cloud Chamber delayed.

BioShock 2

BioShock 2 is a 2010 first-person shooter by 2K Marin, published by 2K Games, set 10 years after BioShock in Rapture; player is Subject Alpha, the first Big Daddy; Metascore 88.

BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite (2013) is Irrational Games' first-person shooter set in the flying city of Columbia, starring Booker DeWitt rescuing Elizabeth; sold ~11 million copies, PC Metascore 94, Switch port 2020 by Virtuos.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part 2013-2014 DLC by Irrational Games sending Booker and Elizabeth to a pre-fall Rapture, rebuilt in the Infinite engine; Episode 1 (Nov 12, 2013) is combat-based, Episode 2 (Mar 25, 2014) stealth-based with Elizabeth playable.