Definitions

life science

NOUN

any branch of natural science

Synonyms

STRONGEST

anthropology biological science biology ecology environmental science medicine natural science zoology

WEAK

animal biology bioscience botany science of life study of living things

Example Sentences

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His co-founder and co-CEO, Vik Bajaj, is a professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine who previously co-founded Google’s life science division, Verily.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Visser also pointed out that the AI start-up Anthropic External link, the developer of the Claude LLM, has been hiring more life science researchers as of late.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

“Investors are more selective across the board,” said Jackie Spencer, SVB’s head of relationship management for life science and healthcare banking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 31, 2025

Malmö has experienced a surge in new tech start-ups and life science companies.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Art, then, is as it were the return of abstraction to life; science, on the contrary, is the perpetual immolation of life, fugitive, temporary, but real, on the altar of eternal abstractions.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich