Biological Material Production via Stress Phenotype Evaluation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for producing biological materials from cells and organisms often result in suboptimal safety, efficacy, and yield due to stress conditions in the cells or organisms, leading to undesired properties in the produced materials.

Innovation Solution

The methods involve evaluating cells or organisms for stressed phenotypes and modulating their stress conditions to produce biological materials with desired properties by changing nutritional intake, environmental conditions, or administering stress-reducing agents, ensuring an unstressed phenotype is achieved before production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cells or organisms are maintained under standard culturing conditions, then production processes can be maintained, but stress conditions cause suboptimal safety, efficacy, and yield

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety and efficacy of biological materialsVSAvoidyield of biological materials
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by evaluating cells or organisms for stressed phenotypes before production and taking corrective measures in advance. This includes assessing stress indicators such as morphology, behavior, or molecular markers, and implementing stress-reducing interventions prior to biological material production to ensure optimal safety, efficacy, and yield.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If stress conditions are present in cells or organisms, then production can continue, but the biological materials produced have undesired properties

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontinuity of productionVSAvoidquality of biological materials
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring stress indicators in cells or organisms during production. This includes assessing phenotypic changes, molecular markers, or other stress-related parameters, and using this information to adjust culturing conditions or intervene to reduce stress, thereby maintaining both production continuity and material quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If stress-reducing interventions are implemented, then unstressed phenotype is achieved, but additional steps and resources are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of biological materialsVSAvoidcomplexity of production process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by modifying culturing conditions such as temperature, pH, nutrient composition, or other environmental parameters to reduce stress in cells or organisms. This allows the system to achieve an unstressed phenotype and improve biological material quality through adjustments to existing process parameters rather than adding complex new systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10294506B2Methods for producing biological materials
Publication Date: 2019.05.21 PALO ALTO INVESTORS LP

AI summary

Methods of producing biological materials from cells and organisms are provided. Aspects of the methods include modulating the stress conditions of the cells and/or organism to produce biological materials having one or more desired properties. In certain aspects, the cell or organism is evaluated to detect the presence or absence of a stressed phenotype, wherein an unstressed phenotype may be produced before the cell or organism produces the biological material of interest. The biological materials produced from such cells and organisms may be used for a variety of applications, including therapeutic, research, and other applications.