Primary Job Title Chief Scientific Officer Primary Organization 
The BioCollective
Location San Luis Obispo, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Raúl Cano is a professor of microbiology at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. In 1995, he and colleagues in his lab stunned the world when they announced they’d revived 30-million-year-old bacteria from spores taken from the gut of an ancient bee entombed in amber. There were skeptics who wondered whether the
bacteria were really just modern bugs that contaminated the tools used to get at the bee gut tissue. But in October 2000, another research group used many of the techniques developed by Cano’s lab to revive 250-million-year-old bacteria from spores trapped in salt crystals. With this additional evidence, it now seems that the "impossible" is true.
Cano has received several awards for his outstanding teaching skills and is recognized for his laboratory training of undergraduate students.
