They hope that future synthetic cells can make useful bacteria for products like bio-fuels or vaccines, and to clean up polluted water.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Bio-markers help researchers know what is happening in the bodies of people with a disease or medical condition.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Some researchers believe that bio-printers may one day be able to print organs directly into the body.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Scientists at Oxford University tested a new method developed by Nova Bio-Pharma Technologies.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So we are looking at bio-markers, we're doing sophisticated X-rays, like functional MRI and spec-scanning to understand what happens in the brains of patients with fibromyalgia when they have pain, what happens to their brains when we treat that pain."

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Vichai also warns that increasing demand for bio-fuels from grain could reduce food crops, forcing the price of food grains higher.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

This so-called 'bio-gas' is burned like natural gas in a small electric power plant right on Vander Haak's farm.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"The game technology is bleeding into virtually every other industry from military to homeland security, health care,bio-technology.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

This bio-fuel is an alternative to gasoline and is less harmful to the Earth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

And the fact that all of our visas are fingerprint,bio-metric fingerprints based on ensuring that that person's identity is proven is a very important factor in this,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Earlier this year,in Mexico, an international conference noted the importance of bio-technology.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

His housekeeping staff, for example, was not accustomed to bio-degradable, citrus-based cleaners.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Those laid to rest here will be buried in bio-degradable coffins.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"So they very quickly turn into about 13 tons per mile, and when you look at an eighty mile reach, it's phenomenal how much bio mass is taken up by these Asian Carp."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

(Speaking) "Why do we need bio-tech experts?

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Bio-trade analyst at the U.N.Conference on Trade and Development Lucas Assuncao says local communities will be more inclined to preserve their flora and fauna, if they can see economic benefits from using their natural resources in a sustainable manner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"Why should we be encouraged to lease large tracts of land for bio fuel production that we are not eating to make money and use that money to import food?" Ghana's Agriculture Ministry says private sector farmers are free to do what they like with their land.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23