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that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an amber ale with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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