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  • FUTURES

A rude awakening

Just breathe.
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  1. Patrick C. N. Martin

    1. Patrick C. N. Martin started out as a molecular biologist but realized that computational biology and bioinformatics was much more fun and, more importantly, safer. Science fiction is what inspired him to do research.

Close-up of a man’s neck in a spaceship, where the neck seems to have developed gills

Illustration: Jacey

“What on Earth is this?”

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02488-9

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