biohacking

A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with dark hair and round glasses excitedly tells someone she has set up a biohacking lab in the basement, where she uses specially programmed enzymes to insert code into bacterial DNA so the bacteria can create any chemical she wants. In the next panel, a red-haired child with glowing blue, bioluminescent tear-tracks under its eyes asks, 'Is that why I suddenly have bioluminescent mucus?' The woman, now looking uneasy, says, 'But... I only put that bacteria in a sealed dish in mommy and daddy's "no-no drawer."' The final panel shows the red-haired child's face up close, glowing blue mucus around its nose and eyes, with the woman saying 'What a weird coincidence' — implying the bacteria escaped via an intimate route. In the votey (aftercomic), the same red-haired child, now with a glowing blue mouth/tongue too, casually remarks, 'Weird! The neighbor has it too!', implying the contamination has spread even further.