Imagine a world of shape-shifters. A surgeon inserts a small lump of plastic into an anesthetized patient and, like magic, it expands into a life-saving mesh tube that keeps a formerly clogged artery open. Or maybe the shape-shifter starts as a microscopic metal claw with talons ready to pounce.
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