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The girl in the lab coat was extracting DNA from a piece of lettuce. She held the pipette like it was something sacred—like it might break if she breathed too hard. Beside her, a boy adjusted his goggles, avoiding eye contact. He didn’t ask a single question. Not because he didn’t have any, but because somewhere along the way, someone taught him to stay quiet. Outside those walls, their parents were at work under the Arizona sun, harvesting the same crop. They pulled lettuce from the earth to feed the country. Their kids pulled out its genetic material to understand it. The overlap was intentional. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6789期 · 2026年3月5日,Gilberto Lopez。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。