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He did eventually become a full professor and landed at Harvard University. There, in a typical nerdy-but-brilliant-George-Church way, he wooed a co-worker, married and started working in the then-new world of genomes. Cells consumed him. DNA fascinated him with information and possibilities. It became an obsession, then, when he talked with a journalist who asked if, considering the advances made in the science of genomes, it was possible to bring back extinct species. July Seed Library 1 Classes 5 2 Offered 8 2 6 Ralph Waldo EmInterested in merson said, “What is this spot? a weed? A plant whose thawing permafrost, in conjunction with global warming, was poised to do great damage to the planet. He explained how ancient animals forestalled the issue millennia ago, and that damage could be reversed by reversing time. He’d made it his life’s work, as did certain Chinese scientists. That was all Church needed to hear. 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