Coinciding with the summer, the latest film in the series initially based on the famous book has just been released in theaters. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. This science fiction adventure novel, published in the 1990s, posed the possibility of the de-extinction of the dinosaurs using DNA from these extinct animals extracted from the blood sucked by mosquitoes that had been trapped in the resin turned into amber. Crichton was inspired by the advances in genetic engineering in the 1980s and the potential applications of PCR (polymerase chain reaction, which allows any DNA fragment to be amplified and which we have heard so much about during Covid-19). Shortly after, Steven Spielberg, with his gift for directing films that tell stories that manage to capture everyone's imagination, made a highly successful film, with a recognizable and iconic logo.

Maria Branyas, who died a year ago at the age of 117 in the Olot residence where she had lived for two decades, being then the oldest person in the world, she was fortunate to inherit a privileged genome that, according to researchers, made her cells "feel" and "behave" like younger cells, with a biological age of about seventeen years less. She also had a microbiota typical of a child. This is the conclusion of the study led by Manel Esteller, head of the Epigenetics Group of the Josep Carreras Institute, professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona and the world's leading authority on epigenetics and the study of aging and cancer. Numerous research teams of great international prestige have participated, the vast majority of them Catalan, and it is the most exhaustive and complete research ever carried out on a supercentenarian (those who live more than 100 years). The results, which the ARA has accessed for the first time, are revealing.