DATA STANDARD FOR BIOMATERIALS

• US 20090325212A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Carlson, Sonia Patricia, Karkanias, Chris Demetrios, Mercer, Simon John
• Application Number:
  US12/163,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20090325212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 435/29
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0285 Nanoscale sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/02 involving viable microorganisms

Abstract

Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, logging, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a genetically engineered organism and a data standard.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates monitoring a condition of a living body, comprising:

an engineered organism that produces a biomaterial containing encoded information;

an interface component that facilitates receipt of or delivery of the biomaterial; and

an operation component that analyzes the biomaterial using a data standard, the data standard associating each of a set of stimuli with a corresponding each of a set of biomaterial subunit sequences.

2. The system of claim 1, the data standard comprises binary code.

3. The system of claim 1, the stimuli comprise at least one of vitamin levels/production, mineral levels, amino acid levels/production/reduction, fatty acid levels/production, hormone levels/production, insulin levels/production, hemoglobin levels/production, glucose levels, alcohol levels, infections, parasitic infections, genetic disorders, cancer, cancer producing substances, presence of toxins, abnormal physical states, allergen levels, drug metabolite levels, immune response compounds levels/production, or melanin levels/production.

4. The system of claim 1, the living body comprising a human being.

5. The system of claim 1, the biomaterial is one of a nucleotide sequence or an amino acid sequence.

6. The system of claim 1, the engineered organism comprising a genetically engineered bacterium.

7. The system of claim 1, the engineered organism comprising a genetically engineered parasite.

8. A method of logging events in a living body, comprising:

introducing an engineered organism into a living body, the engineered organism encodes events in a biomaterial;

collecting the biomaterial generated by the engineered organism, the biomaterial comprising encoded data indicative of an event in the living body; and

using a data standard to correlate the encoded data with the event.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising sequencing the biomaterial generated by the engineered organism before using the data standard.

10. The method of claim 8, the data encoded in the biomaterial according to binary code.

11. The method of claim 8, the data encoded in the biomaterial according to ASCII code.

12. The method of claim 8, collecting the biomaterial comprising collecting one of blood, urine, saliva, feces, mucus, or hair from the living body.

13. The method of claim 8, the engineered organism encodes events in a polymeric biomaterial comprising two different subunits.

14. An event logging system that obtains data concerning a living body, comprising:

an engineered organism that produces a biomaterial containing encoded information in response to a stimulus; and

a data standard for correlating each of a set of stimuli with a unique biomaterial sequence code.

15. The event logging system of claim 14, the biomaterial is one of a nucleotide sequence or an amino acid sequence.

16. The event logging system of claim 14, the data standard comprises binary code.

17. The event logging system of claim 14, the biomaterial is a polymer comprising two different subunits.

18. The event logging system of claim 14, the encoded information comprising an event log.

19. The event logging system of claim 14, the engineered organism comprising a genetically engineered bacterium.

20. The event logging system of claim 14, the stimuli comprise at least one of vitamin levels/production, mineral levels, amino acid levels/production/reduction, fatty acid levels/production, hormone levels/production, insulin levels/production, hemoglobin levels/production, glucose levels, alcohol levels, infections, parasitic infections, genetic disorders, cancer, cancer producing substances, presence of toxins, abnormal physical states, allergen levels, drug metabolite levels, immune response compounds levels/production, or melanin levels/production.