Category:Bio-engineering

Bio-engineering is tied up with the animation, reanimation, and deanimation of life. It may be the attempted imparting of life to inanimate building-blocks at the microscoping or macroscopic level (Dr. Victor Mordenheim and Emil Ballonbach with their golems and ). It may be the reimparting of life to a fresh corpse (Dr. Herbert West). It may be the replication of existing life (Dr. Victor Mordenheim with the cloning of his wife and Horg). It may be the altering of existing material processes to overcome the problem of rejection in transplantation (Dr. Victor Mordenheim and Emil Ballonbach). It may be the reorganisation of an existing life such that its nature is changed fundamentally (Dr. Frantisek Markov and Falkfuhrer Vjorn Horstman with their broken ones and Emil Ballonbach with his animal fusions). It may be the weaponisation of disease (Falkfuhrer Vjorn Horstman with his Primal Serum).

life from attempted engineering of life from lifeless building-blocks or the re-engineering of existing life,

or the engineering of live from scratch. 

Herbert West of Lovecraft's Reanimator is another case in point.