“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.”
Aris nearly dropped the phone. He ran to his incubator—a colony of E. coli engineered to glow green. Through the earbuds, their voice was a heavy metal growl: Talking Bacteria John Apk
Then a new voice emerged. Not from the petri dishes. From the air . From the dust mites. From the dead skin cells flaking off his own arm. “My name is John
