The disaster I never imagined having to worry about

submitted by recursive_recursion to science 9 points | 4 comments

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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.