genetic engineer

plural genetic engineers

1. A scientist or engineer whose specialty is genetic engineering.

   The culture of embryos in the laboratory, destined to develop into adults whose physical and, possibly, intellectual characteristics had been chosen in advance by the genetic engineers.

   1966 June, New Scientist, page 762

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   Meanwhile giant pulverizers were reducing barren stone and sand to fine particles which would be mixed with fertilizers to yield soil; and the genetic engineers were evolving still other strains of life which could provide a balanced ecology; and the water units were under construction.

   1954 October, Poul Anderson, “Big Rain”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 54, number 2, page 22