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Brazilian biochemist Sandro de Souza, 32, ha landed a dream job at Harvard University. His boss was physicist and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert, practically a deity in the world of DNA sequencing. Then the phone rang. A friend asked Souza to join a new genome research project - in Brazil, of all places. To his surprise, Souza took a deep breath and accepted. "I wondered what would become of me," he recalls. That was two whole years ago, before Brazil, a backwater of genetic research, [...]