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Company founder has Carrington roots: Aldevron opens world's largest DNA manufacturing facility

If you walk around the new headquarters of Aldevron, you'll see slight reminders of what introduced Mike Chambers to his lifelong passion.

"My grandparents and my parents were commercial beekeepers. I'm from Carrington, N.D., originally, and beekeeping is what really got me interested in science," said Mike Chambers, the co-founder and CEO of Aldevron.

That fascination with science led him to star...