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AssigneeZero-Gravity Corporation
InventorJohn W. Kennedy
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The present invention provides manufacturing processes for biological replication of undifferentiated plant and animal cells and tissue in a weightless condition, including those systems used in current stem cell research and development and use of undifferentiated parenchyma in plants. The present invention further provides methods for adapting plants and animals to survive outside their native environments. In particular, undifferentiated cells from plants or animals are replicated under weightless conditions in which cell replication or proliferation is accelerated and sustained. Under such conditions, the undifferentiated cells can be “forced” to express sets of genes useful for survival in particular environmental conditions. In this manner, cells surviving prolonged exposure to specific environmental conditions can be selected for and cultivated to produce an organism adapted to that particular environment in an accelerated manner. Methods of identifying specific genes associated with adaptation of a plant or animal to a specific environment are also disclosed.
A method of producing at least one undifferentiated cell comprising uniting two haploid cells to form a diploid single cell under conditions to support fertilization in a weightless condition or environment, wherein said single cell can replicate itself forming a diploid cell that will not develop into an embryo of differentiated cells and tissue.
A method of producing at least one undifferentiated cell comprising uniting two haploid cells to form a diploid single cell under conditions to support fertilization in a gravity condition or environment under normal earth gravity, after unification is complete, preserving the resulting diploid single cell so that no replication of the diploid single cell occurs, reviving the diploid single cell under a weightless condition or environment, and culturing the diploid single cell in culture medium in a weightless condition or environment to obtain replication of the diploid single cell that will not develop into an embryo of differentiated cells and tissue.
A method of adapting a plant or an animal to grow in a hostile environment comprising:
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