I spent my career in biomedical research and wrote a debut hard SF novel where the science had to actually hold. Offering ARCs to anyone who wants to scrutinize it.
I'm a retired professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and current lecturer at the University of Toronto. Over a career in biomedical research I published ~55 peer-reviewed papers.
The novel is called What the Stars Encoded. A geneticist decodes an alien signal to cure her daughter's progressive illness, and inadvertently triggers a planet-wide DNA transformation guided by a quantum AI. The mechanism is built on real prion biology, viral capsid design, and iron metabolism. The orbital attack sequence is purely thermodynamic, no magic hacking, just physics.
Peter Watts has a copy. Arvin Ash called it "a fascinating story that asks some deep philosophical questions."
I'm limiting this to the first 15 requests, in exchange for an honest Goodreads or Reddit review, whenever you get to it. More at www.starsencoded.com