TL;DW:
Due to various molecular configurations (aka polymorphs), currently known medicines when contaminated with a catalyst seed molecule/particle can become irreversibly unreproducible via chained-contaminations.
- the contamination can cause the existing configurations to become more stable in a negative fashion where the medicine/compounds no longer work they way we expect them to.
This system of contamination and reproduction acts in similar fashion to viral infections.
Current Solutions:
- better clean room procedures for all steps of medicine manufacturing.
- pour more money into medicine polymorph research.
Gonna be honest when this came out, all I could think of is glycerin magic from Zero Escape.
The fact that this is a real phenomena is pretty unnerving to say the least. Another thing to note down on why 2026 might be one of the worst years to exist :/