The direct and deliberate manipulation of living systems using engineering principles. It's the application of design, analysis, and construction to biology, treating cells and DNA as programmable hardware and software. This includes genetic modification of crops, designing microbes to produce pharmaceuticals, growing tissues in bioreactors, and creating synthetic biological circuits. It's not just studying life; it's inventing new forms of it to solve human problems.
Bioengineering Example: Creating a yeast strain Bioengineered to produce the antimalarial drug artemisinin instead of brewing beer, or designing bacteria that can detect and destroy cancer cells in the body, are acts of bioengineering. It's turning biology into a precise manufacturing technology.
a word of expression to when you give up on comprehending someone's words of ignorance, stupidity, absurdity or are too exhausted to formulate a proper response.
Commonly seen in TikTok comment sections in replies to lazy attempts at humor, overconfidentally incorrect statement, or an over-the-top comment or when someone completely misses the mark on something.
n. software that is no longer sold or supported by the original publisher / developer, often found as free downloads on the internet because it cannot be obtained elsewhere. Not legal, but often seen as morally acceptable because the company that made it is no longer selling the title, nor releasing it as freeware, therefore abandonware is "keeping the game alive", so to speak.
Doom II is not abandonware because id still sells it, while The Incredible Machine is not sold, therefore is abandonware.
Ruler of Lake Titicaca. Rumored to have a bunghole that gets very angry if it does not receive toilet paper. Cornholio the Great is often seen walking around with his shirt over his head and his hands in the air, chanting songs about his power, and his bunghole.
"I am Cornholio! You do not want to face the wrath of my bunghole, for I need TP!"
Butthead: Shut up, Beavis! (uh huh huh huh)
Beavis: Um, okay. (heh heh heh heh).