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''[['''Blood Music]]''''' is a 1985 science fiction novel by Greg Bear.

Biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes ('noocytes'). After his employer orders him to destroy them, Vergil injects them into his own body with the intention of smuggling them out to work on them elsewhere. Inside the hostile -- buthostile—but not completely lethal -- environmentlethal—environment of his body, the noocytes multiply and evolve, quickly gaining self-awareness and building a civilization in his blood. When the civilization begins to spread to other humans and starts improving, then transforming its hosts, [[Hilarity Ensues]].