So, what is this organism? I hypothesized that it existed before submitting myself to the commune. And here it is. I can see it in numerous video microscopy studies. Clearly a protozoa—ovoid, flexible, twisting and shuddering to move blindly through its medium, my blood in this case. It appears almost gold in these studies because of the dye they’ve used. We don’t yet have any hint how it’s different from a dozen or so other species that are very similar. We don’t know why it’s emerged just now to have this effect on human beings.
We are working to run the full sequence of its genetic code, but that will only be the first step. This will take a long time. Because of what I did, we’re well ahead of any other lab. We’ll need to stake our claim, move as quickly as we can. There’s enough here for a series of papers.