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Article: Born-again bacteria.(Raul Cano claims to have extracted ancient bacteria from bees entombed in amber)
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- Newsweek
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- May 29, 1995
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TALK ABOUT INDIRECT: TO BRING DINOsaurs back to life, the "scientists" of "Jurassic Park" had to extract dino DNA from the amber it had been embalmed in for millions of years, augment it with frog DNA, slip it into a crocodile egg and wait for the baby beast to hatch. Raul Cano skipped the preliminaries. In the current issue of the journal Science, the California Polytechnic State University microbiologist announces that he has brought a creature entombed in amber back to life. Directly. True, it's only a bacterium, not a Ford-crunching tyrannosaur. But if Cano has done what he says--other biologists have serious doubts--it will be the first time an organism preserved in ...
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...California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo issued the ... following press release: Raul J. Cano, Unocal chair for Environmental ... College in Spokane, Wash. Cano will deliver the commencement ... hold a special reception in Cano's honor. The Outstanding ...
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