We can't yet snip genes, but we can snip lumps and polyps, and to almost equally good effect when they're caught early enough.
A garden cross orbweaver has ensnared a German wasp and she is wrapping her in a swaddling of silk, but the wasp has yet to concede, her jaws snip through the silk, she writhes, but her limbs are bound.
Dr. Sri hurriedly daubed, wiped, sewed, snipped and then repeated the wearying sequence yet again.
Yet even that hefty price tag feels like a snip compared to the $250m paid by oil-rich Qatar to snag Cézanne's The Card Players for a new art museum.
After another, one that has not yet been the subject of Talmudic dissection on the Internet, she snipped: "I know you don't care.
Yet now that the railway's infamous credit card has been snipped up by the Treasury – having run up £38bn and rising of rail debt – promises of jam tomorrow look very hollow.
Last year, researchers in China reported that they used base editing to snip disease out of a human embryo, but the approach hasn't been tried in a person yet.
Some of these have already been integrated within an experimental web-based (extended) bookmarking tool, Snip!t, and a prototype desktop application On Time, and the paper discusses how the components could be more fully, yet more openly, linked in terms of both architecture and interaction.
Meanwhile, I busied myself with my soup (thick and salty, topped with snips of mint, a drizzle of chili oil, and a few chunks of soft feta) and salad (heavily dressed yet still optimally crunchy), and took out my laptop.
