“They warn me that I should not go to far and threaten to stitch up a case against me if I do.”, he said

The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.

He really parked that one.

Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.