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[StrangeAeons]

Just to be a stickler about nomenclature, why is the forum called "bioscience"? The forum is for biology. Biology is a science. Calling it "bioscience" may sound more futuristic, but in reality it's just redundant. I would think titling the forum "Biology" would be better for our credibility.

[Lazarus Long]

Calling it "bioscience" may sound more futuristic, but in reality it's just redundant.

Bioscience as in the engineering of biology not just biology. Of course biology is a science and genetics is a part of biology but *biotech* is also BMI (brain machine interfacing) and genetic engineering is a lot more than just biology. Also while genetics is a part of biology it is also basically *organic* nanotechnology.

The problem of modern cross-disciplines is that today the core of genetics is both chemistry and computer science to explain why something is alive. Bio-informatics is biology but to better describe the cross disciplinarian aspect of what is being discussed I for one agree that bioscience is a better.

That does not diminish the biological aspects of the study but expands the horizons to include more topics, like GM organisms, artificial viruses, synthetic tissue generation, artificial cellular constructs, etc. This is not just botany and zoology anymore.