“John. John. John.”
“My name is John. I was a grad student at UC Davis in 2019. I coded a backdoor into a bacteriophage and injected myself into the quorum-sensing network of a single S. aureus cell. Then I let it divide. And divide. And divide.” Talking Bacteria John Apk
But the voice was clear now. A chorus, thin as insect wings: “John
At first, silence. Then a whisper.
“Don’t bother,” John said. “You’re patient zero. Not for a disease. For a democracy. Every bacterium in your body gets one vote. And they just elected me president.” thin as insect wings: At first