Two lines of inquiry, run in parallel for over a decade. One starts in a lab. The other starts in a coma. Both keep circling the same question: what actually makes us human, and what our place is in the wider universe.
Pharmacogenomics looks at why the same dose of the same drug can help one person and harm another — and traces that difference back to the genes doing the metabolizing. It's precision medicine before precision medicine had the marketing.
A sepsis-induced coma took El past the point doctors expect someone to come back from. What she experienced — and what she's spent years since reading the actual literature on — sits at the genuinely unresolved edge of consciousness research.
Same instinct. Different instrument.
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