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the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers — especially with the manipulation of individual molecules
- Wakulla Price had been Jimmy's lab partner in Nanotech Biochem, but her father was headhunted by a Compound on the other side of the continent, and she'd taken the high-speed sealed bullet train and was never seen again.p. 76.1
- He turned out to be excellent at Nanotech Biochem, and together he and Jimmy worked on their single-molecular-layer splicing project, managing to produce the required purple nematode using the colour-coder from a primitive seaweed — before schedule, and with no alarming variations.p. 76.6
There are no more uses of "nanotechnology" in Oryx and Crake.
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