I wasn't sure which article to submit, since this was on gimodo, popular science, and various other places, but this (albeit behind a paywall) is the original journal article.
Searching on the title and appending 'filetype:pdf' for Google will often return a preprint or a copy from the authors' institutional website.
As for the content - wow, amazing work. I'm no biotechnologist but this seems like the gateway to an algorithmic approach to medicine. I wonder if it could be turned around to measure intra-cellular processes and send out signals by producing nonreactive chemical tracers...oh yes, it's addressed on page 4.
How long before we see biological botnets? Fascinating stuff.
What, you mean parasites that control their host's behaviour in order to propagate themselves? Those already exist.
Granted, they don't mine bitcoins just yet.
Part of a pretty cool Wikipedia category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasit...