Lysozyme
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.2 nm. A hen’s egg is about twelve million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Muramidase. “HEWL” to the lab crowd.
- Height
- 4.8 nm, standing on its end.
- Weight
- 24 zeptograms
- Taste
- Sweet, oddly. Take our word for it.
- Marks
- A deep cleft down one side, where it cuts.
- Habits
- Bursts bacteria by cutting their walls. Hangs out in tears, spit and snot.
- First seen
- By Alexander Fleming, who had a cold and grew his own snot on a plate.
- Known for
- The first enzyme ever seen in 3D.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked EGG WH in the fridge at HQ.
of them in the white of one large egg, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Lysozyme, No. 9. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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