Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Artificial life' comes step closer: "Researchers at Rockefeller University in the US have made the first tentative steps towards creating a form of artificial life.

Their creations, small synthetic vesicles that can process (express) genes, resemble a crude kind of biological cell.

The parts for their 'vesicle bioreactors', as they call them, all come from diverse realms of life."