I started with my wife, Ryan Phelan, who ran a biotech business called DNA Direct, and through her, one of her colleagues, George Church, one of the leading genetic engineers who turned out to be also obsessed with passenger pigeons and a lot of confidence that methodologies he was working on might actually do the deed.
Eu comecei com a minha mulher, Ryan Phelan, que dirigia uma empresa de biotecnologia,  chamada DNA Direct, e através dela, um dos seus colegas,  George Church, um dos principais engenheiros genéticos que, afinal, também era obcecado por pombos-passageiros e com muita confiança de que as metodologias em que estava a trabalhar iriam realmente resultar.