Maybe, it was all in the genes.
When Glen de Vries was growing up in New York, his big dream was to be a scientist. As a child, he wanted to be a physicist. As he grew older, that turned to wanting to be a chemist and, by the time he was in university, the computer nerd had decided that to be a biologist was to be his calling.
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