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Probably magic.

(But really, it probably uses nanobots. So still magic, just disguised as technology. Everyone knows that nanobots are actually magic.)
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So, then it is fully possible for a species to be immune/resistant to such techniques assuming they are alien enough to be not understood by such nanotechnology. There would also be the point of how such nanobots would even be introduced, as certain substances prove to be extremely detrimental to that particular sect of technology =P